• IFA grain growers continue to occupy the Department of Agriculture’s head office tonight to demand a tillage crisis fund. They will find some comfort in the news that grain prices have increased significantly over the past few days.
  • A review of the inspections and appeals process is under way following the four-hour grilling of Department of Agriculture officials by the Oireachtas agriculture committee yesterday.
  • The volume of milk imported into the Republic of Ireland in 2016 reached a record high.
  • Six sheep have died in a suspected knife attack in Co Armagh.
  • Fertiliser spreaders fitted with GPS control will be covered in the current tranche of the TAMS II tillage scheme.

    • Photo of the day

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

    The crowd at Teagasc’s Moorepark dairy open day in Co Cork yesterday. \ Donal O’Leary