Irish Independent - Farming - 2020-04-21

• Farm leaders vow to resist state-backed ‘land-grab’
• Looming legal obligation to test all animals born before 2013 for BVD, warns AHI
• Slick ad campaigns don’t reflect the hard economic realities of the cheap food on our supermarke­t shelves
• 10,000 jobs at risk in the dairy sector warns new report
• Northwest herds hit hardest by liver fluke – AHI
• Keelings’ critics need to get real about how Ireland’s food production system works
• Grid lock: does the beef sector need to start from scratch on QPS review?
• If the base price is too low, no amount of tinkering with the grid will make beef profitable
• Turning redundancy into the opportunit­y to follow
• ‘The biggest challenge was not being guaranteed a regular income any more’
• 10 tips to getting through the crisis
• Adding sulphur to the fertiliser mix can deliver big results on silage dry matter yields
• Is dock surge a consequenc­e of spreading slurry with trailing shoe or dribble bar?
• We’re winding down from lambing and gearing up for silage
• We will struggle with labour shortages until society wakes up to the value of its farm workers
• Mart bosses are answering farming’s call
• Price slump bottoming out as supplies tighten and live trade delivers fillip
• Back from the brink: buoyant farmers stir memories of an epic sporting comeback
• Researcher­s move closer to breaking herbicide resistance in black-grass
• Chucking in the chisel to carve out a relationsh­ip with nature
• ‘We need to find ways in which we can feed ourselves while regenerati­ng our environmen­t’
• From IT crowd to top of the pops
• Munster herds keep up dairy dominance with top seven bulls in ICBF list
• How to cut your silage baling bills
• Long-term leasing looks set to be the dominant land trend of 2020
• Farmland sales moving online, but auctioneer­s still prefer the traditiona­l ways of doing deals
• ‘The only thing I am not doing as normal is rushing out every evening for training’
• Corporate greed means some farmers are now in a battle for the ‘right to repair’ their own machinery

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