• Lakeland Dairies is the first processor to cut its milk price for January.
  • Kerry Group management and unions are in talks about 31 redundancies at the company's Carrickmacross factory.
  • Yara has blamed the Chinese market for rising global fertiliser prices.
  • Export company Supreme Livestock will load up to 1,200 heavy bulls early next week for Libya on the approved livestock boat Sarah.
  • The Department of Agriculture has set payment rates for the Areas of Natural Constraints scheme, including this year's €25m budget increase.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Michael McDonnell, a dairy farmer from Curraghboy, Co Roscommon, moving yearlings to new land he recently purchased. \ Philip Doyle.