• Marts are moving quickly to introduce new safety rules, but worry that farmers will be angry when denied entry to cattle areas.
  • Dale Farm, the largest dairy co-op in Northern Ireland, has said that it has an interest in the developments at LacPatrick Dairies.
  • The Dáil has passed a motion that calls on the Government to immediately bring forward a host of measures to help struggling farmers including a hardship fund and meal vouchers.
  • The latest payments of annual tax-free forestry premiums for 2018, amounting to €17.33m, have been announced.
  • Northern Ireland’s BVD eradication programme is to take a significant step forward by banning persistently infected animals from entering a slaughter plant from 1 May 2018.

    • Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk here is our photo of the day:

    Cattle graze on Eddie O'Donnells dairy farm in Golden Co Tipperary. \ Philip Doyle