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Marts are facing closure as the cost of insurance and increased safety measures mount up. The issue came up in the Oireachtas in the past week – Thomas Hubert reports.

A farm deposit scheme and the removal of tax barriers for female farmers are all part of an agri taxation submission made by the IFA. Its farm business committee chairman Martin Stapleton sat down with Hannah Quinn-Mulligan.

Eoin Lowry and Kerry Group chief executive Edmond Scanlon talked alternative proteins, market opportunities in China, milk prices and the challenges facing the dairy industry when they met.

Anthony Jordan explains how changes to asylum seekers' working rights could help to ease the labour shortage on farms in the future.

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