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Editorial: farm budget positive but still gaps for farmers
Justin McCarthy
For farming to get just €28m directly from a €1bn Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund in Budget 2023 beggars belief.
28 September 2022 Viewpoints
EU-UK deal on plant and veterinary issues could unblock the Protocol impasse
The US needs the EU and the UK to be seen to be working together and pooling their resources, writes John Bruton.
28 September 2022 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Winter approaches
Beef farmers' attitudes to autumn supplementation while cattle are still at grass vary.
Dempsey at Large: Contrasting two countries
Politics matters hugely in the development of a country.
28 September 2022 Viewpoints
Farmer Writes: weighing cattle and calves
The question now for Kieran Sullivan is what to sell and what to keep to let out to grass next March.
28 September 2022 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: Early sowing a balancing act
Foggy mornings and shorter days with poorer drying, as autumn wears on, make for sticky min-till seedbeds.
28 September 2022 Farmer Writes
Colm McCarthy: clarity needed on plan for energy rationing
Favour should surely be shown to exporters which use energy but which have deep linkages back into the Irish economy.
28 September 2022 Viewpoints
Editorial: plenty on the mind as farmers look to the future
Farmers have seen through reassurances from Government that emission reduction measures will be voluntary.
21 September 2022 Viewpoints
Energy security: findings from the CEPA report
The status of Ireland as a non-nuclear, anti-fracking, citadel of virtue is an affectation.
21 September 2022 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: drop in European grain harvest
Stark messages from the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
21 September 2022 Viewpoints
Home Farm: high silage intakes
On the tillage side, we are consciously slightly delaying the sowing of the winter barley
21 September 2022 Viewpoints
Need for a forestry development agency
Forestry report a wakeup call for forestry and agriculture in Ireland.
21 September 2022 Viewpoints