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Dempsey at Large: stabilising the tillage industry
Matt Dempsey
The establishment of the Food Vision tillage group rightly identified that a more fundamental appraisal of the place of tillage in Ireland is needed.
27 March 2024 Northern Ireland
Muir pushes London for more farm money
At present, NI receives around £300m of ring-fenced funding each year for direct payments to farmers
17 March 2024 News
Slump in New Zealand beef and sheep farm incomes
New Zealand beef and sheep farm incomes for the 2023/24 season are expected to fall to levels last experienced in the 1980s.
€2.5bn needed to 'support farmers' to cut livestock numbers
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) said it estimates €500m/year from 2026 to 2030 will be needed to support farmers to reduce livestock numbers to meet climate targets.
6 March 2024 News
Watch: Macron pledges cashflow plan amid farmer protests
French farmers clashed with police at the agriculture affair Salon de l'Agriculture on Saturday.
25 February 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: farming for Dyson, Irish crop returns and awards
This week’s Tillage Podcast features the head of agronomy of a 35,000ac farm, undesirable figures on Irish tillage farming and some good news on whiskey.
8 February 2024 News
Tillage farmers face €7,500 weather hit
Tillage farmers are facing into a year of huge financial losses and policy and regulations are increasing problems on farms.
7 February 2024 News
Farmer protests sweep across Europe
Anne O'Donoghue and Noel Bardon examine the spread of farmer protests across the EU and what drove protest action in the EU agricultural powerhouses of Germany, France, Poland and Belgium.
7 February 2024 News
Tillage farm incomes to plummet
Wet weather is causing havoc on tillage farms and rules and regulations are adding to problems as farmers assess whether to resow or not.
7 February 2024 News
Watch: farmers protest in Ghent and Brussels
The impact of EU policy on farming has not been taken account of, farmers say, as they protest in Ghent and Brussels.
1 February 2024 News
Performance and prospects less exciting at farm level
The successful agri-food processing industry is underpinned by consistent supply from Irish farms and that is vulnerable.
12 January 2024 News
‘Politicians should cherish their farmers’
An annual farming conference took place at the University of Oxford last week.
10 January 2024 Northern Ireland