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Editorial: past mistakes haunting Department initiatives
Jack Kennedy
Farmers have lost confidence in the officials before the game has started.
Editorial: past mistakes haunting Department initiatives
Editorial: TB developments
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: TB developments
TB: if one in five herds have reactors, it shows the scale of the problem.
Editorial: malting is the future
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: malting is the future
Nothing beats regular communication and key messages well in advance of field work.
Editorial: milk solids' importance
Co-op directors should lead from the front on this, when setting and announcing milk price.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Regulation must ensure technologies succeed
A price has been paid and the reputation and prospects of a technology with real promise has been damaged.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Lime levels being counted
We don’t use that much lime, but it’s noticeable that even on just one farm that pH levels vary from one field with a pH of over 7.5 while a small grass paddock was analysed at 5.5.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Colm McCarthy: It’s not just tariffs that could hurt – our taxes are targets too
The capital programme was halved in volume by 2014 and has only lately recovered to pre-crash levels.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: invest now in farming rather than future fines
We do need to protect carbon in soils and grow the volume of carbon that we protect.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: remembering Juliet Greene
Juliet's late husband Juan Greene was the NFA' s first President and was the necessary driving force in building a national organisation that could represent all Irish farmers.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: hill sheep breeding plans
We are hearing increased concerns from hill sheep farmers about discussions on rewetting plans taking place behind closed doors.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: malting industry debate
The malting premium over feed is one of the bright lights for tillage farmers in terms of possibilities to improve margins. It always has been.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: all systems go
The first priority was to get the Roundup on the beans ground – it badly needs cleaning up before sowing.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints