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Dempsey at Large: food self-sufficiency policies

Europe on the other hand has steadily traded access to its food market at the expense of its own farmers, but in the interest of access for its own products and services.

VIEWPOINTS 29 April 2026

Dempsey at Large: food self-sufficiency policies

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Leaders required to sort Lough Neagh

Leaders required to sort Lough Neagh

NORTHERN IRELAND 29 April 2026

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

VIEWPOINTS 29 April 2026

Dairy reporting creates farmer confidence

Dairy reporting creates farmer confidence

Dairy reporting creates farmer confidence

NEWS 26 April 2026

Dempsey at Large: tanks or tractors?

Dempsey at Large: tanks or tractors?

Dempsey at Large: tanks or tractors?

VIEWPOINTS 22 April 2026

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Home Farm: ground conditions improve

Home Farm: ground conditions improve

We ended up finishing the buying season by buying cattle that won’t be ready until well into 2027.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: good reasons for green diesel system

Colm McCarthy: good reasons for green diesel system

The Government appeared complicit in the popular notion that the lower rate of excise on green diesel is a conscious concession to the agricultural community.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Desperate Farmhusband: 'I have about 20 cows on the dole; not being milked'

Desperate Farmhusband: 'I have about 20 cows on the dole; not being milked'

If a lack of Government support has taught us anything, it's that we sometimes need to take matters into our own hands.

FEATURES 15 April 2026

Opinion: Varadkar's provocative pronouncements are both worrying and revealing

Opinion: Varadkar's provocative pronouncements are both worrying and revealing

Declan O'Brien suggests the former taoiseach's assertion that farming 'bring costs on Ireland' is deliberately divisive and could best be described as pure raiméis.

OPINION 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: Import prices, like the weather, are just things that happen

Colm McCarthy: Import prices, like the weather, are just things that happen

There is a logic to having higher, not lower, taxes on the big trucks which have been blocking the country’s roads.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Opinion: urban-rural alliance claims a victory over government

Opinion: urban-rural alliance claims a victory over government

The protesters on Molesworth Street were at least as broad a coalition as the one in government. It was the one inside Leinster House that fractured on Tuesday afternoon.

OPINION 15 April 2026

Dempsey at Large: diesel - why don't we just use our own?

Dempsey at Large: diesel - why don't we just use our own?

It seems shortsighted not to have at least a standby capacity to produce some of our own domestic needs.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

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A different kind of farm visit

Organic beef and sheep farmer, Kay O’Sullivan, describes her experience of hosting a group of chefs on her farm.

A different kind of farm visit

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