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Editorial: Advice needed on Bluetongue vaccination

For any vaccination programme to work, there must be leadership and sound veterinary advice on their use.

VIEWPOINTS 23 December 2025

Editorial: Advice needed on Bluetongue vaccination

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Editorial: 2025 - a good year for Irish farming

Editorial: 2025 - a good year for Irish farming

VIEWPOINTS 23 December 2025

Editorial: Season's greetings

Editorial: Season's greetings

VIEWPOINTS 23 December 2025

Opinion: Why are some technologies readily adopted and not others?

Opinion: Why are some technologies readily adopted and not others?

Opinion: Why are some technologies readily adopted and not others?

VIEWPOINTS 23 December 2025

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

VIEWPOINTS 17 December 2025

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Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

An informed forum should be assembled immediately and a national policy developed.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

The early closed paddocks have covers fit to graze after the long mild spell, but while the grass might be fit to graze, the land certainly isn't.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Editorial: moment of truth for Mercosur trade deal

Editorial: moment of truth for Mercosur trade deal

Regardless of what the next few days brings in terms of voting results, the deal will still have to pass a final hurdle of EU parliament ratification in spring 2026.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Editorial: final hard yards for BVD eradication

Editorial: final hard yards for BVD eradication

Lessons should be learned from the BVD programme. Stronger powers and more stringent rules introduced earlier could shorten the race considerably.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Editorial: winter finisher concern

Editorial: winter finisher concern

One swallow doesn’t make a summer, and the same can be said for the winter finishing business.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Editorial: Agri-Food Regulator will get more tools, eventually

Editorial: Agri-Food Regulator will get more tools, eventually

Even with this extension, the office remains extremely limited in its capacity to bring transparency to the agri food supply chain beyond the farm gate.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Dempsey at Large: Teagasc looks to the future

Dempsey at Large: Teagasc looks to the future

Has our competitive position deteriorated or improved vis-à-vis third countries, such as Russia and Brazil, and what can be done to reverse the erosion of our ability to compete.

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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