Irish Independent - Farming - 2018-03-27

• Knackeries at breaking point on dead animals
• Ireland lagging behind rest of EU on organic conversion
• Lamb will be at a premium this Easter
• Farmers are down to the wire on fodder: Teagasc
• Team of 11 bulls deployed for sexed semen trial
• Promoting wool as ‘green’ fibre could lift sales: ICSA
• Feed price hikes are on the way warn suppliers
• Milk proteins take sharp fall as fodder deficit bites
• Why I am on a mission to tell the story of our notable trees
• Biomass crop exports to English plant will cost Irish taxpayers €4m, claims merchant
• We are already playing catch-up on next year’s breeding programme
• It’s a calving season we won’t forget for a very long time
• BEST FOOT FORWARD
• The main lesson from this winter? You can never have enough silage
• The 2018 lambing season has presented new challenges
• ROYAL RINGSIDE
• Farmers will face increasing scrutiny on waste disposal
• Opportunit­y knocks for Irish farmers to give
• EU puts pesticides’ vote on hold for two months
• Food producers call for longer transition period after Brexit
• Farmers make CAP submission­s
• Visitors a real food experience
• All hands on deck at Fairyhouse
• Supply stable ahead of the Easter feast
• Weanlings the best sellers as farmers focus on bottom line
• Attack the best form of defence on beef prices
• Fine margins make all the difference in calf to beef
• Rushing calves on to solids is ‘a false economy’
• 100 years a-growing Derek Casey
• PLANNING PERMISSION AND GRANTS
• Ready to go
• Packed auction sees tillage land sell for close to €20,000 per acre
• Fine prospects in Evegallaho­o
• Jim O’Brien
• Reaping the rewards from social farming
• Lessons from an era when the bottom line wasn’t everything
• Music with Eddie Rowley
• Musictown is simply the fest

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