Round 1: Easing in

1. Who is the news editor and deputy editor of the Irish Farmers Journal?

2. In last week’s Budget, how many million was set aside for a farm safety scheme?

3. To the nearest hundred, how many commercial wind farms are there on the island of Ireland?

4. Who is the secretary of the Department of Agriculture?

5. How much can a landowner earn tax free if they lease their land out for more than fifteen years under the new regulations announced in last week’s budget?

6. Claas tractors were previously branded as what ?

7. Who is the Director of Friends of the Earth Ireland?

8. Tinahely show is held on which Bank Holiday weekend?

9. To the nearest billion euro, what was the value of Irish exports to the UK in 2013 according to Bord Bia?

10. To the nearest 10, how many commercial pig farmers are there in Ireland?

Round 2: Where’s the BEEF?

1. At what time does the Beef protest commence on Monday?

2. How many million beef cows are in the USA, to the nearest 10 million?

3. What country are Dunbia originally from?

4. How many provinces do Kepak have a beef slaughter plant in?

5. In what county is Moyvalley meats based?

6. Who is the head of Teagasc’s Grange research centre?

7. In the beef blockade of 2000, what base price were farmers demanding for cattle?

8. In what county is Carnaross mart?

9. Who is the Manager of Ennis Mart?

10. Who was IFA president during the 2000 beef blockade?

Round 3: Down to the Dairy

1. Bandon, Barryroe and Drinagh are three of the four owners of Carbery Group. Name the fourth.

2. In what county will November’s National Dairy Conference take place?

3 Name the chief executive of Arrabawn co-op.

4. What is the base price Glanbia announced for September manufacturing milk?

5. Thomas Dwan recently won the NDC Kerrygold milk quality award. In what county does he farm?

6. Who did Kerry recently announce as Chairman?

7. In what county Glanbia’s liquid milk plant?

8. To the nearest per cent, how much over quota was Ireland in 2013-14?

9. Who preceded John Comer as ICMSA president?

10. Which Irish milk processor paid the highest price for milk in August including bonuses, according to this week’s Irish Farmers Journal?

Round 4: Famous Faces

See carousel at top of the article and guess the people in the pictures.

Round 5: Get your thinking CAP on

1. Which is the newest member of the EU and the CAP?

2. How much per hectare is the GLAS payment on unenclosed commonage land?

3. How many farmers has Simon Coveney said will enter GLAS in 2015?

4. How many different crops are required for tillage farmers to fulfil that element of greening?

5. What country has the highest per hectare payments in the current CAP?

6. Which EU Agriculture Commissioner introduced decoupling?

7. What percentage of the direct payment fund will the greening payment account for?

8. When are the EU’s sugar quotas being abolished?

9. What will the maximum single payment per hectare be in 2019?

10. What is the annual ceiling for direct payments for Ireland from 2015 to 2019, to the nearest hundred million euros?

Round 6: Tillage and sheep time

1. What is the parent co-op that own Boortmalt?

2. What Irish county has the most hectares under tillage?

3. Who are the two co-owners of the Malting company of Ireland?

4. What machinery company make the RAPID seed drill?

5. What Limerick based-company are associated with maize sowing?

6. Who is the chairman of IFA’s sheep committee?

7. What county in Ireland has the least sheep according to the 2013 National Sheep census?

8. Irish Country Meats have a factory near what Wexford Village?

9. How many sheep flocks are in Ireland, to the nearest thousand, according to the 2013 National sheep census?

10. Name a breed of sheep that shares it’s name with an English county.

Round 7: Acronyms Anonymous

1. What does DAFM stand for?

2. What does PCS stand for?

3. What does CNH stand for?

4. What does TAMS stand for?

5. What does SCC stand for?

6. What does ANC, which is replacing DAS, stand for?

7. What does BTAP stand for?

8. What did the abbreviation FWMS stand for?

9. What does AEOS stand for?

10. What does SIU stand for?

Round 8: Where in the World?

1. In what country is Friesland/Campina’s headquarters?

2. What country did the EU complete a trade deal with last week?

3. In what city did Enda Kenny extol the virtues of Irish Agriculture at a climate change conference last month?

4. Did Ireland export more pigmeat to the EU excluding the UK, or outside the EU in 2013?

5. In what Galway town was there a sugar beet factory?

6. What country are Valtra/Valtmet based in?

7. What country hosts the headquarters of Arla?

8. Name any three of the Mercusor countries.

9. In what country is the fertile Po valley?

10. In what country were Steyr tractors first manufactured?

Round 1 answers

1. Pat O’Keeffe

2. €12m

3. 200 (216 windfarms to be precise)

4. Tom Moran

5. €40,000

6. Renault

7. Oisin Coughlan

8. August

9. €4bn (€4.1bn to be exact)

10. 300

Round 2 answers

1. 3pm

2. 30 million (actually 29m in 2013, according to the USDA)

3. Accept Northern Ireland or the UK

4. Three. (Watergrasshill- Munster, Athleague- Connaught, Kilbeggan and Clonee- Leinster)

5. County Kildare

6. Eddie O’ Riordan

7. 90p/lb (ninety pence a pound)

8. Meath

9. Martin Macnamara

10. Tom Parlon

Round 3 answers

1. Lisavaird

2. Dublin (The Moran’s Red Cow Hotel)

3. Conor Ryan

4. 30.5 cent per litre

5. Tipperary

6. Michael Dowling

7. Ballitore is in County Kildare

8. 1% (0.65% to be exact)

9. Jackie Cahill

10. Dairygold

Round 4 answers

1. Timmy McCarthy – Dairy farmer and former Cork hurler

2. Jim Bergin- Glanbia Ingredients Ireland CEO

3. Ann Phelan - Minister of State at Department of Agriculture

4. Pat Dillon- Teagasc Moorpark

5. Sean O’Donnell Macra/FBD Young Farmer 2014

6. Sean O’Leary IFA Dairy Chairman

7. James Murphy- IFA South Leinster Chairman

8. Niall Browne- Dawn Meats

9. Pat McCormack- ICMSA Deputy-President

10. Michael Fitzmaurice- Farmer and newly elected TD

Round 5 answers

1. Croatia

2. €120

3. 30,000

4. Three

5. Malta

6. Franz Fischler

7. 30%

8. 2017

9. €700

10. €1.2bn

Round 6 answers

1. Agrareal

2. Cork

3. Glanbia and Dairygold

4. Vaderstad

5. SAMCO

6. John Lynskey

7. Limerick (19,597 total sheep)

8. Accept Camolin or Ferns

9. thirty four thousand (34, 304)

10. Accept Suffolk, Border or Blue Leicester, or Hampshire Down.

Round 7 answers

1. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2. Pesticide Control Service

3. Case New Holland

4. Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme

5. Somatic Cell Count

6. Areas of Natural Constraint

7. Farm Waste Management Scheme

8. Beef Technology Adaptation Programme

9. Agri- Environment Options Scheme

10. Special Investigations Unit

Round 8 answers

1. Netherlands

2. Singapore

3. New York

4. Outside the EU 65,000 tonnes to

5. Tuam

6. Finland

7. Sweden

8. Any three of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela

9. Italy

10. Austria