• A campaign of 200 farm machinery safety inspections will start next week.
  • European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources Günther Oettinger has said that CAP budget cuts can’t be avoided.
  • Two farmers, former UFU president Ian Marshall and Fine Gael candidate Anthony Lawlor, were elected to Seanad Éireann today.
  • EU member states have voted to ban neonicotinoid insecticides.
  • A new tillage crisis is brewing on the horizon, according to a survey of farmers by the Irish Grain Growers group.

    • Photo of the day

    Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk, our photo of the day is the audience applauding Ivor Ferguson as new UFU president at the farming organisation's AGM at Greenmount Campus this week. \ Houston Green