Good week for

  • Farmers, because An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has pledged his support to them.
  • A potential solution to a calf export bottleneck, as a new ferry service from Ireland to Spain, could be an important avenue for Irish cattle.
  • Dairy farmers, as December milk prices were held by co-ops, while GDT improved.
  • Making your voice heard, as readers of the Irish Farmers Journal are being asked to Save our Sucklers in a letter to President Juncker, Commissioners Hogan and Malmström, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister Michael Creed.
  • Dunbia, which netted close to £9m from the sale of its pig processing business in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
  • Bad week for