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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar addressed the IFA AGM and promised to keep up efforts to protect farmers from the effects of Brexit.

Also at the IFA AGM, news correspondent Hannah Quinn Mulligan spoke with Family Fair chair Caroline Farrell, deputy president Richard Kennedy and Donegal chair Michael Chance.

Leitrim native Edwina Guckian told Hannah Quinn Mulligan about her fears over the impact forestry will have on her county in generations to come.

Newly-appointed Carbery chief executive Jason Hawkins spoke to our correspondent Tommy Moyles at the Lisavaird winter symposium.

Machinery editor Michael Collins met FCI chief executive Michael Moroney at the contractors association’s biennial conference and exhibition.

Ciarán Lenehan visited commercial and pedigree suckler farmer Kieran Noonan in Cork as part of the BETTER farm programme.

Northern Ireland correspondent Peter McCann begins a review of performance among Dairylink participating farms in this week’s Irish Farmers Journal.

And finally, Irish Country Living careers specialist Anthony Jordan shared CAO advice with Irish Farmers Journal news correspondent Hannah Quinn Mulligan.

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