It was a good week for...

  • Women in agriculture, as the IFA is to improve the gender balance in its organisation by 2025.
  • Bandon Co-op, as the company saw its profits increase by more than one-third in 2018 after a very strong financial year.
  • The Mulligan and Parke families, who took home the big prizes at the Irish Aberdeen Angus national calf show at the showgrounds in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim.

    • It was a bad week for ...

  • Irish farmers, who have been effectively locked out of a €1bn loan scheme because no Irish banks “have asked to take part”.
  • Beef farmers, as economist Jim Power has said the days of the part-time, low-income farmer are numbered.
  • Asian pig farmers, as African swine fever (ASF) has reached epidemic levels.
  • North Dublin horticulturists, as a freak whirlwind caused extensive damage to a number of glasshouses.

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