• Skim milk powder have moved well above the intervention buy-in level and, for the second week in a row, no product was offered into the public intervention measure.
  • Jean-Pierre Fleury, who chairs the beef group of the EU umbrella farming organisation Copa-Cogeca, has said that there will be a “major European beef crisis” without orderly Brexit transition period.
  • There will be a €36m minimum cost to agriculture as potential ammonia pollution rules are set to target slurry.
  • A senior DAERA vet has said that there is ‘not a hope’ the current bovine TB policy will eradicate TB in Northern Ireland as the number of reactors surges by 50%.
  • Beef prices continue to creep upwards for steers, heifers and cows as factory agents scramble for cattle with strong export demand emptying cold stores.

    • Photo of the day

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

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    Ramona Farrelly snapped suckler beef farmer Sean Lowry spreading muck on his farm at Clonurke, Ballyfin, Co Laois.