Irish Independent - Farming - 2018-07-10

• Grass growth collapse hits farmers for €360m
• THE KING OF VINTAGE
• SHEEP 2018
• Hogan blasts IFA over ‘fake news’ on CAP
• Outcome of the Kerry battle will lay down a marker for other co-ops
• Why Ireland is at risk of becoming a drought ‘hotspot’
• A month’s rain needed to salvage the harvest
• Drought survival guide
• ‘Linking farm safety to EU payments will save lives’
• On farming through a chronic illness
• We need to face up to the facts about expansion
• Sympathy is one thing, taking action another
• Total burnout of grass in some areas
• Massive Meath equine complex on the market
• Potato crops need irrigation to avoid failure
• Harvest at crisis point as moisture levels plummet
• Milk price boost needed to take pressure off farmers
• Competitio­n for milk heating up in Border counties
• Famine Museum gives human face to a tragedy that still haunts us
• Potential cure for Johne’s Disease over a decade away
• ‘IN ALL MY YEARS I’VE NEVER SEEN DROUGHT THIS BAD THIS EARLY IN THE YEAR’
• ‘Serious, serious trouble’ on the horizon as drought bites hard
• ‘I will have to reduce stock for the winter — I am grazing the second-cut ground’
• Insurance hikes are driving up crop costs
• It’s shorts, sweat and suncream as we take on new challenges
• Weather dictates that cull ewes must be sold now
• CASE STUDIES
• Half of all EU workplace deaths occur in farming
• UK’s latest Brexit plan is ‘full of holes’
• Number of workers on dairy farms rises 40pc
• Barley growers reject latest IFA/Boortmalt price offer
• A sparkling success story
• GRAND DAM WITH A WINNING LEGACY IN EVENTING AND SHOWJUMPIN­G
• Things get ugly as factories put the squeeze on
• Marts are packed but buyers are hard to find
• IN THE KNOW
• Cull cow numbers up as squeeze continues
• The landless young man who became a champion pedigree beef breeder
• Munster herds dominate Holstein Friesian awards
• IHFA NATIONAL HERDS CONTEST RESULTS
• Bright sparks get chance to shine
• Double whammy in north Cork
• Compact Waterford holding for €495,000
• Swede dreams are made of this
• Local farmers battle it out for Dublin holding
• The ‘magic of milk and glory of cheese’
• AN EMPHASIS ON HYGIENE AND QUALITY
• Walking the length of Ireland to fight cancer
• There’s no Il feeling now
• ‘It is always the farmer who has to pay for regulation­s’

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