The farmer's daily wrap: €100m beef scheme, milk price cuts, straw and Mercosur
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Words matter, so who will guard the Guardian?
The Guardian's receipt of funding from philanthropic foundations is at least transparent, but does it affect the balance of their viewpoint?
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Balancing Sheep Welfare Scheme payments to issue
On Thursday, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed announced that balancing payments under the Sheep Welfare Scheme will issue.
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€100m beef fund for sucklers and finishers – Creed
The minister said factories would not have access to the Brexit compensation scheme under preparation.
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Glanbia and Breast Cancer Ireland want to turn the countryside pink
Silage season 2019 is underway and swathes of the lush green countryside are about to be splashed with vibrant pink as a major #PinkBales fundraising drive is unwrapped.
Family-owned feedlots entitled to compensation – ICSA
The organisation has highlighted that family farms struck down by TB can be listed as ‘feedlots’.
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Loss of nitrates derogation would undermine progress
The rapid expansion in the output of Irish dairy farming was a response to a Government plan for the sector, the IFA dairy chair says.
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A new leptospirosis vaccine now available
A new lepto vaccine in the Irish market has given farmers who found themselves without vaccine a chance. Tommy Heffernan discusses the options
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Glanbia Co-op to pay €10.9m Trading Bonus to Members
Glanbia Co-operative Society (“Glanbia Co-op”) has confirmed that a total of €10.9 million will be paid to milk supplier Members of the Co-op this month as part of its 2018 Trading Bonus Scheme.
IFA calls for 30c/kg sheep QA bonus
Sheep farmers' representatives met factory management in Co Wexford amid low lamb prices.
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Glanbia and Breast Cancer Ireland want to turn the countryside pink
Silage season 2019 is underway and swathes of the lush green countryside are about to be splashed with vibrant pink as a major #PinkBales fundraising drive is unwrapped.
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Hannah Quinn Mulligan presents a round up of the Irish Farmers Journal's Beef Summit in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.
A new live weather page has been launched on the Irish Farmers Journal website. Over the past three months, 24 weather stations were installed on each of the 12 farms participating in our From the Tramlines programme.
Two stations were placed on each farm and record rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind speed, gusts and wind direction.
Live data from each station is beamed directly to our website for readers to view, but they will also be able to access historical data ranging from one hour ago to one month.
Peter Thomas Keaveney took a trip to Headfort farm in Co Meath to catch up with J&C Sheridan who recently made the move to a four row Grimme potato planter.
Euegene Headon and his son Garrett bought a 2010 British built SAM Vision 4000 this year for their contracting and tillage business.
Spring calving draws to a close and thoughts turn to breeding on Ryan McDowell's farm in Co Antrim.
The Irish Farmers Journal team discuss management of these two infectious diseases.
Understanding the basics of lungworm with the coolest vet in the world or the journal vet.
Architect and teacher Eric and Catherine Osborne are determined to put rural Carlow on the map with their unique pub, accommodation and farm at the foot of Mount Leinster.
The Moree herd was dispersed last week in Dungannon, Co Tyrone.
Learn more about the value of sowing Irish certified seed and its importance for the future of tillage farming.
Sterling rout continues amid hard Brexit fears
Pressure mounts on Theresa May to step aside over Brexit negotiations with Labour.
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Hands-free hectare becomes hands-free farm
Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions created a ‘hands-free hectare’ in 2016.
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EU plans new road rules for self-propelled farm machinery
Changes to legislation for self-propelled agricultural machinery on public roads could be on the way, with the EU looking at the harmonisation of standards across member states.
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IFA potato report: first earlies due in July
IFA potato market report Tuesday 21/05/19.
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Call to exclude gene editing from GMO legislation
Last year the European Court of Justice ruled that new breeding techniques had to fall under GMO legislation.
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