Good week for…

  • Cormac Tagging, which finally secured Department of Agriculture approval for its tags after a lengthy battle
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  • The McCann family behind Fyffes, who will pocket €87.5m in the sale of the Irish fruit company to Japanese giant Sumitomo
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  • A farmer in Offaly who saw a hen of his deliver a fifth clutch of chicks on Tuesday
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  • Farmoji, which became the top trending app on the Google Play Store.

  • Aryzta shareholders as they voted 80% in favour of new chair Gary McGann and shares rose 5% in the week
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  • Dairy farmers after all co-ops increased milk prices for November.

    • Bad week for…

  • Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness, whose hopes of becoming the next president of the European Parliament were dashed by fellow EPP group member Antonio Tajani from Italy.
  • 14,000 farmers who were warned by the Department of Agriculture that they are potentially facing nitrates penalties unless they take immediate action.
  • The UCD crop science department as it loses Professor Jimmy Burke to Origin
  • Beef farmers, who learned that there will be a massive kill next year, which will put pressure on prices.
  • Any farmer who holds on to PI calves on farms as a new regime to eradicate BVD was announced
  • Thieves, as there has been a major drop in farm thefts and cattle rustling