The reader loyalty code gives you full access to the site from when you enter it until the following Wednesday at 9pm. Find your unique code on the back page of Irish Country Living every week.
CODE ACCEPTED
You have full access to farmersjournal.ie on this browser until 9pm next Wednesday. Thank you for buying the paper and using the code.
CODE NOT VALID
Please try again or contact us.
For assistance, call 01 4199525
or email subs@farmersjournal.ie
If would like to speak to a member of our team, please call us on 01-4199525
Reset password
Please enter your email address and we will send you a link to reset your password
If would like to speak to a member of our team, please call us on 01-4199525
Link sent to your email address
We have sent an email to your address.
Please click on the link in this email to reset
your password. If you can't find it in your inbox,
please check your spam folder. If you can't
find the email, please call us on 01-4199525.
Email address not recognised
There is no subscription associated with this email
address. To read our subscriber-only content.
please subscribe or use the reader loyalty code.
Moves by the Department to introduce mandatory quotas per dairy farm has got farmers talking about alternatives as straight limits don't incentivise improvement at farm level.
New measures are required to reduce the loss of fertilisers and soil from farmland into water, according to the River Basin Management Plan for 2022 to 2027.
A system where slurry could be applied in the closed period if soil moisture and weather conditions were suitable was favoured by Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots.
With rain showers becoming more regular, there is an opportunity to get fertiliser spread on grazing swards and boost grass supplies for the weeks ahead.
Mary Delaney speaks to Jeroen Elfers, corporate director with FrieslandCampina to understand how it has managed environmental supply limits with its dairy farmer members.