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Una Stafford, managing director of Open eir, tells Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Thomas Hubert about the next steps in the rural broadband roll-out.

High kill figures and low prices are damaging the beef industry says IFA hill chair Flor McCarthy. He has called on the Government to introduce an intervention beef buying system that would take 5,000 cattle off the market every week. He feels this would bring the price of beef back up.

President of the IFA Joe Healy, talked about the importance of targeting farm payments at genuine farmers in the next CAP and making sure that donkeys can’t be used as a livestock unit to get ANC payments at a CAP meeting in Tralee on Monday.

IFA Kerry chair Pat O’Driscoll outlined the type of CAP he’d like to see post-2020.

Fertiliser prices should come down and are higher than this time last year, according to IFA Munster chair John Coughlan.

Barney Crawford explained the value of hides as part of the beef animal, how it is converted to leather and it's many uses to Phelim O'Neill.

IFA poultry committee chair Andy Boylan explained why farmers were protesting outside Kerry Foods last Friday.

Matthew Halpin spoke to Basil Bothwell and Paddy O’Rourke about the details of the new BEEP scheme.

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