Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-05-09

• FBD boss takes farmers to task on health and safety
• Live prospects
• Haughey, Gadaffi and the 1980s revival of the live trade
• Farming needs injection of ‘new blood’
• Macra president takes rap for ‘dating agency’ remarks
• Brexit will force Irish farmers to tackle competitio­n issues
• Close to 50pc of Dairygold suppliers opt out of farm body levies
• Gorse fires leave hill farmers with forage shortages
• INTERVIEW
• Life’s a breeze when country is in full bloom
• ‘We need more races to keep younger jockeys at home’
• Creed rules out hike in suckler payments
• Save time and money by detecting the ‘silent bullers’
• It’s been a good spring even if we seem to be perpetuall­y busy
• Taking the bull by the horns on grazing was not too tough after all
• Spring crops are under severe stress and we are seeing the first serious evidence of barley virus
• Prevention key to a profitable farm
• How to avoid legal issues over lesiure activities on your land
• Agricultur­e committee unveil radical forestry CO2 proposals
• The days when dairy farmers could call on a hidden
• Interventi­on casting a ‘shadow’ on dairy warns Lakelands boss
• Workforce are well and truly gone
• Stock that is paying handsome dividends
• Ramadan festival inspires revival in spring lamb prices
• Bullock prices take a hit in majority of categories
• Kill figures up by 11pc on 2016
• Paddock systems can drive higher stocking rates
• Six steps to setting up a paddock
• FARMER UPDATE: DAVID DRUM, ATHBOY, CO MEATH
• Wexford land hits €25,000 an acre
• ‘MOUNTAINY’ GROUND CLOSE TO THE DUBLIN SUBURBS
• Compact Déise residentia­l holding for €300,000
• Palladian Kildare estate sells for €4.6m
• Burren Life project up for top EU nature award
• Summertime and the living is easy — if you’re a teenager
• Music with Eddie Rowley
• Disease outbreak piles pressure on tillage farmers

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