Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-08-08

• Factories and farmers lock horns on prices
• Rescue services Mission On a
• ‘Beginning of the end’ for rural banks
• Shippers and farmers battle it out for weanling supplies
• Hill farmers call for €150/ac payment on designated land
• ‘Booming incomes not a reality for most dairy farmers’ — ICMSA
• Milk jobs plan a ‘short-term’ solution, warns dairy expert
• Spring barley hits €148 per tonne as shortfall kicks in
• Poor Peig has a lot to answer for
• An imaginativ­e first step towards tackling dairying labour issues
• We are fattening up the pick of the lambs for slaughter
• Reseeding is next on the agenda after what’s been a near stress-free summer
• It could be an expensive winter if you don’t get to grips with rotation plans
• Sow now to make the most of catch crops
• It’s green for go on Succession Farm Partnershi­p tax concession­s
• Income figures reflect the inconvenie­nt
• Brexit think-tank calls for end to ‘protection­ism’
• EU leaders under fire on Mercosur beef proposals
• Milk price strengthen­s on the back of global demand
• €11,000 paid for first-born lamb
• Plain stock price eases by €20/hd
• Young bull prices hold firm despite factory blitz
• Taking the leap from beef into dairying
• ‘It was the only way I could stay
• MILK OUTPUT RUNNING CLOSE TO TWO YEARS AHEAD OF FOOD HARVEST 2020 TARGETS
• Full-time in farming and provide for my family’
• How to avoid combine chaos
• Bright sparks set to fly at Tullamore Show
• Massey Ferguson aiming to level the playing field
• Rising to the RDS challenge
• A launching pad for great jumping and breeding careers
• Living the life O’Reilly
• Get into the swing of things in Meath
• Good mix of Roscommon farms from €5,000/ac
• Dundalk farm tops €17,000 an acre
• Last flurry of sales before the August lull
• GAA legend O’Rourke launches farm project
• My Gaelic football debut doubled up as a testimonia­l
• Is there a Dr in the house?
• ‘I was always out on the farm since I was a child’

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