• A number of farm loans could potentially be sold to vulture funds, an Oireachtas Committee on Finance heard today.
  • Prices at this week’s Global Dairy Trade fell as well as milk prices for February supplies.
  • A sheep farmer is counting the cost of a sheep attack which occurred on Wednesday night in Craanford, Co Wexford.
  • Young farmers who started out between 2010 and 2013, have lost out on €13m worth of funding.
  • 4,000t of skimmed milk powder (SMP) has been sold out of intervention by the European Commission for €1,050/t, which marked a drop in price from a previous sale of SMP out of intervention in February for €1,100/t.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Liam Lynn spreading slurry on his beef and sheep in Emper, Ballynacargy, Co. Westmeath, where he farms alongside his son William.

    Liam Lynn spreading slurry on his beef and sheep in Emper, Ballynacargy, Co Westmeath, where he farms alongside his son William. \ Philip Doyle