• Farmers have started receiving 70% of their BPS advance payment.
  • Ex-Hurricane Ophelia seems to have hit farms in the south of the country the hardest.
  • Another spell of heavy rain is set to reach our shores this weekend.
  • Donald Trump’s Doonbeg golf course built a wall of straw to try to keep Ophelia out, with mixed results.
  • Dairy prices continue to slip at this week’s Global Dairy Trade auction.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Local man Brendan Smyth and other locals work to clear a beech tree believed to be over 250 years old after it was knocked over during Hurricane Ophelia. The tree crashed through the gates of Fletcherstown cemetery; nobody was injured. \ Barry Cronin