Irish Independent - Farming - 2019-04-16

• Dairy-beef breeding plan ‘too little too late’
• Farmers demand answers on March milk price cuts
• 40pc of Knowledge Transfer scheme funding
• Farmers facing reduced compo for ESB cables
• Farmers divided over plans to publicly identify ‘high risk’ herds
• Sympathy but €2,500 fine for farmer found guilty of having marked diesel in van
• New guidelines highlight pitfalls of rapid dairy expansion
• Tidier isn’t always better — we also need to protect our biodiversi­ty
• Timing is everything
• The day our farm became a killing zone
• We are hitting the two most important weeks of the year for grass management
• Make resistance management a fungicide priority
• Triplets and quads posing multiple problems
• The pros and cons of robotic milking systems
• ‘We have to follow the money’
• Meat processors need to prove they haven’t
• Farmers can borrow up to €80k under new credit union package
• Given up on our beef sector
• ‘The dairy influence has led to a huge reduction in quality’
• Factories cut hogget quotes by 10-15c/kg
• Prices rise as farmers pay no heed to Brexit fears
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• Small signs of faith being rewarded
• Tough trade for Hereford bulls
• McCormick roll out revamped X5 Series of ‘livestock tractors’
• John Deere aiming to crack crime with new PIN system
• When landowners need to play hardball on CPOs
• Acquiring authoritie­s’ policy is to resist separate claims on key aspects of CPO compensati­on, writes
• Travelled to the heart of Kerry to walk a 110ac holding that has the makings of a fine stand-alone grazing farm
• Local bidders drive prime Kildare land to €17,700 per acre
• Marathon Wicklow sale achieves strong returns
• Traditiona­l farmstead on quality ground in the heart of Wexford
• ‘Hilly’ Laois land soars to over €14,000 per acre
• How I dodged a one-way ticket to Siberia
• ‘I’m replacing the Sitka Spruce that fall with apple trees’

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