Good week for…

  • Farmers helping farmers, with fodder donations and action plans being drawn up.
  • Pig farmers, as the weekly kill hit record levels for the year.
  • Abiding by the rules, as the new Nitrates Action Programme is signed into law.

  • Cheese, as the highly influential Time magazine heralds its health benefits.
  • Farming politics, as a raft of elections in the ICMSA, ICSA and IFA conclude.

    • Bad week for…

  • The national suckler herd, with a new report predicting the loss of 200,000 suckler cows in Ireland.

  • Young farmers who have been locked out of the National Reserve.

  • Machinery auctioneering business Paul Cooke Auctions, which has shut down.
  • Coillte, which has apologised to its farmer partners over controversial contracts.
  • Commonage farmers, who face losing all of their BPS money after their land was illegally burned.