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Desperate Farmwife: Why are pre-teens obsessed with skincare?
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Young girls are going crazy for skincare items – and our Desperate Farmwife has done her research on what’s OK to use and what’s not.
18 September 2024 Viewpoints
What to do with the Apple billions
Especially if carried forward into next year, the loosening of monetary policy by the ECB is itself a reflationary boost.
18 September 2024 Northern Ireland
Non-beef farmers can feel aggrieved
With area payments being cut by 17% in 2025, it is a significant income hit for non-beef producers.
A warning to those considering planting forestry on their farms
"There is a liability to replant, thus permanently devaluing the land for all time." - Dickie Power, Friarstown, Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
18 September 2024 Opinion
Dempsey at Large: FBD, Glanbia and Kerry
All three have gone on the stock market with a core business that has attracted outside capital and have a record of paying significant dividends to shareholders.
18 September 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: weather panics from last year
Last year's difficulties with weather delaying harvesting and sowing has over-influenced our decision-making this year in rushing us to harvest.
18 September 2024 Viewpoints
Opinion: land use change rules must be changed to tackle biodiversity loss
In the context of a national biodiversity crisis, it’s not credible that farmers can remove habitats without oversight, writes Ray Ó Foghlú.
11 September 2024 Climate and environment
EU’s emissions reporting strategy remains fundamentally flawed
The climate council has again reported that agriculture is responsible for over a third of all Irish emissions, even though most of the sector’s output is exported, a flawed approach.
11 September 2024 Opinion
Dempsey at Large: a bland consensus but still worthwhile
The comments by former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan left me apprehensive.
11 September 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: some cattle in, mole ploughing in tillage
We have ended up housing the most forward cattle and will probably aim to finish them for the pre-Christmas market.
11 September 2024 Viewpoints
View from China: A moment of introspection for China's beef giants
The evolution of China’s domestic beef industry continues to be an interesting experiment in animal husbandry.
11 September 2024 Viewpoints
Worn-out soil is not an issue in NI
Regenerative farmers in other parts of the world are solving a problem we do not have in NI
11 September 2024 Northern Ireland