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'The Dutch have the market, so why not establish a partnership in Ireland with some veal firms from Holland.' - by email, Liam de Paor, BAgrSc, Loreto Road, Carrickane, Co Cavan.
Solar panels on 160-cow Cork dairy farm set to pay for themselves in 2.4 years
Dairy farmers required to record slurry movements to outblocks
Farmer Writes: the days are getting shorter and the ground is getting softer
Inside two €950,000 rotary parlours milking 1,000 cows in Limerick
New winter cereal herbicide launched
A study is underway in the Netherlands to see if maize can be directly drilled into a cover crop without compromising production too much.
A total of €20bn is being allocated towards a new farming support package in the Netherlands.
A new action plan published last week sets a target timeline of 2028 to phase out live imports of calves from Ireland.
Following difficult market conditions, Lemken is consolidating its mechanical weeding business by moving production away from its recently built Dutch facility to its headquarters in Alpen, Germany.
Plans to stop the import of Irish calves to the Netherlands appear to have been halted as the regulations governing it are a European matter not a national one writes Tommy Moyles.
While shippers have been busy in March and April, the loss of the Polish market to calves for most of the early part of 2026 means it's proving difficult for numbers to reach the heights of last year.
The Dealer isn’t sure that this would deter him from not picking up a Big Mac in McDonald’s or from buying a steak in the local supermarket on a given week.
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