Irish Independent - Farming - 2016-09-06

• Meat bosses slam IFA report on beef sector Competitio­n report ‘completely at variance with the facts’ claims Meat Industry Ireland
• State service is ‘failing’ land owners claim hill farmers
• Young farmers clocking up 60-hour weeks
• ICMSA calls for clarity on milk crisis fund
• Grassland close Drummonds deal
• THE BIG INTERVIEW
• From 20 cows to 50 million litres
• ‘It makes sense for us to operate a housed system’
• Key messages for every
• Using meal to add the finishing touch
• Calf to beef enterprise
• FARM WALK SHOW-CASES MOVE FROM SUCKLING TO CALVES
• Farming needs to become ‘smarter, leaner, cleaner’
• Tuning in to a powerful message of hope
• Everyone appears to be losing in this year’s beef price lottery
• First carbon footprint report has a few environmen­tal pointers
• The winter oilseed rape is planted and already up
• Outbreak of maggots has added to our workload
• Selective dry cow therapy could soon be the norm
• Counting the costs of separation
• EU dairy reduction scheme makes little
• ‘CAP is at heart of European project’ - Le Foll
• Creed pledges support for mushroom sector
• Sense for most Irish farmers
• Winter barley growers are down €150/hectare this year
• Food tourism holds key to rural renewal and growth
• Lamb prices 20c/kg up on last year
• Figures reflect fine margins
• Beef prices holding but heavy rain takes a toll
• Limousin landmark
• A pick-up with pizzazz
• Electrical harness kit can be a life-saver
• Stepping stone
• Dowth goes back to its roots
• Countdown to a weekend of champions
• Prime Meath farm for close to a million
• A ‘farmer’s dream’ in the Boyne valley
• Solid Laois holding guided at €10,000/ac
• East Cork dairy farm can take ‘a cow to the acre’
• Kilkenny farm for €12k/ ac
• ‘People thought we were daft but we have never looked back’
• THE PROS AND CONS OF ZERO GRAZING
• A Major celebratio­n in Mayo
• Newbridge foodies open weekly farmers market
• Back to basics in my Connemara hideaway
• Music with Eddie Rowley

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