Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-12-19

• Farmers warned they must register land leases online
• Ireland should look to its history and take a lead role on food security issues
• Kent scores narrow victory in ICSA contest
• Access issue as farmers count cost of wildfires
• Exodus set to continue, warn malting barley growers
• Bullock prices up as Continenta­l shortage bites
• Farmers won’t bear cost of missed greenhouse gas targets
• INTERVIEW
• Kindness can reach places money can’t
• Hogan wants ‘results-based’ approach to CAP payments
• Milk price set for a slide, warn industry insiders
• Taking stock of the fodder situation Tom Coll
• Cows with more robust genetics are key to winter milking
• SOUND JUDGES
• Butter surge lifted all boats but are there some choppy waters ahead?
• Our weanling statistics have revealed some home truths
• British ‘three-tier’ sheep system could be the way forward
• Serious decisions needed to minimise losses in 2018
• Diddly squat
• Dairy must address animal welfare critics
• Mercosur deal on hold amid 15 ‘open issues’
• ‘Green subsidies not helping environmen­t’
• Plans afoot to net €50,000 credit union loans for farmers
• Or consumers could quit milk
• Parade of champions set to light up Christmas Festival
• Bullocks up 25-30c/kg year on year
• Christmas has come early for the beef sector
• A mammoth achievemen­t
• Majella O’Sullivan
• Emootional
• Giants of the furrow and from fairs to marts and beyond
• All bases covered in Derry
• Hectic bidding pushes Cork land to €30,000/ac
• ‘Unique’ forestry investment in Tipperary for €1.5m plus
• Calendar girls bare all for a good cause
• ‘Happy Xmas’... it will be once I don’t hear Lennon’s drivel
• Nathan in dream Land
• ‘Are the government really serious about alternativ­e energy?’

Irish Independent - Farming - 2017-12-12

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