• Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed said he was ’open to’ a €200 suckler cow scheme after 2020 and postponed the announcement of a fodder transport scheme at the IFA AGM. Also speaking at the AGM, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he was confident a hard Brexit could be avoided.
  • Storm Fionn is hitting the country with snow and strong winds tonight after Met Éireann issued a status orange weather warning for Atlantic coastal counties.
  • The IFA has elected outgoing north Tipperary IFA chair Tim Cullinan as national treasurer at its AGM as revenue from levies dwindles.
  • Dairygold and Arrabawn have announced that they are holding their milk price for December as the GDT price index increases.
  • A slurry gas incident killed eight cattle in Roscommon.

    • Photo of the day

    Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk here is our photo of the day:

    Sheep in the snow at Gartan Lake, Churchill, Co Donegal. Photo by Clive Wasson.