• The Department of Agriculture is putting the steps in place to introduce a fodder relief scheme for farmers hit by the bad weather in the west and northwest.
  • The Christmas beef trade has put life into prices, with factories being forced to increase quotes this week.
  • Two more co-ops have set a price for milk supplied in October. Those co-ops are Dairygold and Arrabawn.
  • A Co Offaly farmer is back looking after his stock after being on the end of a vicious assault two weeks ago.
  • And finally, the Carbery Group has become the latest co-op to offer a fixed milk price scheme. It’s a competitive offer but is not a market leader.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Tom Power with his grandson Liam O’Keefe calling to a neighbour’s dairy cattle in Mulrankan, Bridgetown, Co Wexford. Tom keeps some pigs, chickens and turkeys in Bree just outside Enniscorthy and has done so since he got his first pig at 14 years of age. He now loves spending time with his grandkids. Philip Doyle