• Our top story today – Dawn Meats will soon be processing 900,000 cattle and 2.6m sheep after the Competition Authority gave the clearance for its deal with Dunbia.
  • There are just two weeks to go before the slurry deadline, but there is a lot of rain forecast this weekend.
  • Despite having a poor track record in paying for schemes such as GLAS, the Department of Agrciulture under-spent its budget by an eye-watering amount last year.
  • On the cattle prices front, weanlings under 330kg dominated the trade at Skibbereen Mart today. Check out the prices here.
  • And finally, gardaí in the midlands are investigating the theft of a trailer and tools on a farm. Read more about that theft case here.
  • Photo of the day

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

    Mary Skelly and Tomas Skelly have a herd of suckler cows in Newtowncashel, Co Longford. Mary looks after the herd day to day. Philip Doyle