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Viewpoints
Export market change - real and present
Jack Kennedy
For value growth to continue, clearly Irish grain needs to be the basis for Irish drinks.
Export market change - real and present
Editorial: Stop the clock and reflect
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Stop the clock and reflect
How quickly we forget some of the detail and indeed some of the outcomes from these so-called scandals.
Editorial: Renewable ‘set price’ disappoints
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Renewable ‘set price’ disappoints
It seems, on the face of it, that this tariff rate is below expectations and not going to give the injection or boost to farmers that they need to take on the project risks.
Editorial: need for positive thinking for investing in 2025
The EU powerhouses of Germany and France need financial stimulation and are in a very different fiscal economic situation to Ireland at the moment.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: communicating to non-farmers essential
A more diverse population means it is more challenging to communicate with people about farm tasks.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Animal Health Ireland – time for a reset?
If resources are limited for AHI, I often ask myself why is it spending scarce resources on programmes that I’m going to suggest could be classified as more ‘routine’ at this stage.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Seasons Greetings
The year finished very well with exceptionally good ground conditions helping winter planting and autumn grazing.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Suckler positivity
Mercosur is obviously the elephant in the room and particularly what economic and social impact it will have on rural areas.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: choosing solar or food?
We know there are people starving in the world that would love the riches under our feet and yet we are knowingly long-term decommissioning land.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Kerry shareholders vote yes
The move means big change in the relationship between the existing Kerry management and milk suppliers.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Bovaer or not?
The company producing this product has a duty to inform consumers, and policymakers need to inform citizens.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Mercosur back track?
Be sure that beef farmers are watching political soundings with keen interest.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints