Good week for…

  • Disadvantaged area farmers as their ANC payments look safe for now.
  • Farmers who bought overhyped bull straws as AI companies offer to replace them.
  • Cattle finishers, as Algerian buyers place a first order for 1,200 heavy bulls.
  • Dairy farmers who are in line to receive an extra €33m in their April milk cheque.
  • Glanbia as it moves one step closer to creating its Glanbia Ireland joint venture.
  • The Irish Farmers Journal, as it was named Media Brand of the Year 2017.

    • Bad week for…

  • GLAS farmers, who are waiting for payment that may never come, according to Minister Creed.
  • Brexit optimists as European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan said there would be no special deal for agriculture in the negotiations and IFA president Joe Healy warned that the future of Irish farming is at stake.
  • More than 1,000 farmers who cannot submit their Basic Payment Scheme application because of GLAS blocks.
  • Wicklow farmers, who were rocked by a new TB outbreak.
  • Milk processing at Glanbia’s Belview plant, where one of the dryers broke down on Wednesday.
  • Livestock, wildlife and forestry in west Cork as wildfires took hold in Gougane Barra.