Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-11-07

• Safety experts issue winter farm warning
• ‘Pressures on farmers are enormous’
• Skimping on safety gear can come at a terrible cost
• Farmer offers €1,000 reward for stolen cattle
• Majority of export steers fail to make basic grade
• Hardy Scots could come to hill farmers’ rescue
• Former Kepak plant up for sale
• African vets ready to answer Ireland’s call
• Winter sowings bounce back
• The spark has gone out of the EU’s ‘marriage’ with farmers
• Butter prices still buoyant but have peaked for 2018
• Farm bodies hit out at tax proposal
• We need a national silage inventory to tackle fodder crisis
• Councils are barking up the wrong trees
• Effective dry cow strategy essential for a profitable and healthy herd
• ‘Twitterati’ are shouting down logic in the glyphosate debate
• A lifetime’s labour for nothing...
• Creed hits out at ‘knee-jerk’ response over emissions tax call
• Carrot and stick approach required to ensure that
• CAP faces €3bn black hole after Brexit
• Ornua plant in Spain ‘severely damaged’ by blaze
• Creed to lead trade mission as EU and Japan slash tariffs
• Farmers fully engage on safety
• SHEEP TECHNOLOGY
• Prices rise by up to 15c/kg as supply tightens
• Bullock prices rebound by up to €72/hd
• Pendulum swings back as kill down by 4,000hd
• Mixed dairy herd aiming to break new ground in the west
• Roscommon breeder secures top price at Hereford show
• 8point plan for ATV safety
• ‘I still believe that a cure might be found’
• Jim O’Brien
• Dairy prospects in Drumlin country
• Carlow tillage land sells for €7,500 plus per acre
• Survivors share experience of life after farm accidents
• A month for remembranc­e and connecting with the dead
• Music with Eddie Rowley
• ‘I had no feeling from the neck down after I fell off the lorry’

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