Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-01-31

• The Vikings work their way through 1,000 meals a day
• Strathroy not ruling out a Southern dairy
• Nationwide protests over late payments in GLAS and AEOS
• Farmers set to ‘cash in’ on renewable heat scheme
• Under 50pc sign up for sheep welfare scheme
• INHFA calls for ‘Areas of National Constraint’ changes
• €150m cheap farm loan scheme gets green light
• INTERVIEW
• Spring arrives with a flurry of slurry and a bevy of birdlife
• A community agency with a wide remit
• Sod turned on huge NI pig farm
• Steven Meyen
• Beware of the risks strong early growth can pose to winter crops
• Profit monitor results leave me with no excuses for not knowing where I stand
• Rations are being increased as lambing dates approach
• Norwegian beef farmers getting €7.50/kg but as always there’s a catch
• Benefits of farm partnershi­ps will outweigh most of the risks
• Climate to be king at upcoming CAP talks
• This plan to make rural Ireland great again
• Deadlock over growing GM crops in EU
• Glanbia looks set to increase US cheese production
• Agri-food must look beyond UK – Hogan
• Faces multiple obstacles
• Sheep prices sliding further as more plants stop quoting
• Big gains for the heavy Friesian bullocks
• Kill up at 2015 level but prices lag behind
• Hereford beef to the heel in Westmeath
• Spreading their wings
• To the manor born in Carlow €3.7m is the asking price for a period property on 202ac near Tullow, reports Jim O’Brien
• Limerick farm sells for close to a million
• Strong Tipp dairy land guided at up to €8k/ac
• Presidenti­al hopefuls kick off 10-week race to be crowned Macra’s 36th leader
• An interestin­g life through the eyes of a slave driver
• Music with Eddie Rowley
• ‘People say it’s madness to scale up but I enjoy the farming life’

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