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2020-05-12
Lakeland bosses set agri-industry pay-cut precedent
Plans for virtual Ploughing as €45m event cancelled
Keeping the marts open is about much more than just the financial bottom line
Rural crime gangs using drones and online mapping apps to case out farms
Smaller suckler cows produce heavier weanlings, says new analysis
Wool trade collapses as merchants unable to quote prices
Exotic animals running wild pose disease threat to farmers
Live shipment of factory-fit bulls and steers to Algeria postponed
Why carbon ‘quotas’ could be the fairest way to implement the inevitable cuts in herd numbers
Climate change and food security need to be tackled in tandem
This crisis will spell the end of the marts as we have known them
Closures appear inevitable in the west as falling numbers hit already vulnerable mart margins
Sweet taste of success for landscaper turned farmer in the Dublin mountains
‘The business has been self-financing to date – the plan is to expand organically’
Sooner rather than later is the time to take action on cash-flow issues
Our politicians have failed us – it’s time to hand the big beef policy decisions over to independent experts
Lambs are thriving despite the mini ‘drought’ here in the east
It’s a new era for winter wheat fungicide options as we say goodbye to an old reliable
We had no difficulty getting buyers for our dairy calves this spring
Online selling is a godsend let’s just hope it works in a falling market
Falling kill numbers force factories into price rises across all categories
Farmers braced for hard times as factories play the numbers game
Suckler beef profits are all in the breeding
Breeding variety and a compact calving season – one suckler farmer’s route to beef profits
The secrets of pedigree breeding success
‘Winning provides happiness and losing provides wisdom’
Steps to cheaper silage
Krone’s self-propelled Big M mower delivers mind-boggling stats
Wicklow dairy and forestry holding for €10,000/ac
Prime Laois grazing ground guided at €15,000/ac
We all have a part to play in halting the threat of devastating forest fires
‘I grew up with machinery and I would find it very hard to walk away from the business’
I am cautiously optimistic that we will emerge to a better world post-Covid
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