• Aurivo co-op is the latest processor to set its milk price for December.
  • The UK’s National Beef Association (NBA) has criticised Tesco for preferring Irish to British beef over the Christmas period.
  • A Westmeath farmer has lost 40 ewes as a result of dog attacks occurring in the middle of the night in the past six weeks.
  • French authorities have raided premises belonging to French dairy giant Lactalis following an outbreak of salmonella in their infant products
  • On this week’s podcast: An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the IFA AGM and farmer fears over forestry. Listen now!

    • Photo of the day

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

    Tillage fields near Stradbally, Co Laois. \ Philip Doyle

    Tillage fields near Stradbally, Co Laois. Philip Doyle