Irish Independent - Farming - 2020-06-09

• Forestry faces a ‘lost generation’ of farmers due to ash wipeout
• Tillage farmers ‘in despair’ as they face losses of up to €250/ac due to drought
• Sinn Féin agri proposals are ‘alarming’ – Creed
• Consumers will decide if grass-fed beef strategy is the way to go for farmers
• Competitio­n Authority finding on beef sector a ‘whitewash’ claims IFA
• Co-ops and dairy farmers on collision course over Ornua’s PPI hike proposal
• New figures reveal how TAMS payments have driven huge investment in farm expansion
• Delinquent donkeys a distractio­n from irrigation battle as drought bites hard
• The family farm has to remain at the heart of agricultur­e policy
• Why herd reduction is not the solution for our climate challenges
• ‘I haven’t used blanket feed or in-water antibiotic­s in years… if an animal needs treatment then it gets an injection’
• The suckler farmer with a sizzling success story after years of trial and error
• ‘Farmers are getting kicked about – they are being led down the road of mass production’
• Local kids are drinking on our farm property – are we liable if anything happens to them?
• New analysis proves why beef farming should come with a Government health warning
• It’s shaping up as a re-run of 2018 in the east even with a return to normal rainfall levels
• Lambs weaned three weeks ahead of schedule as drought kicks in
• How to slash the energy costs on your dairy farm
• Drought takes toll on prices as bullocks fall €50-60/hd
• Rising demand driving quotes up from April rock-bottom
• Prices pull out of spiral as normality resumes
• Don’t let summer diseases undo all the hard work of spring calf rearing
• Pedigree sales proving a ‘sticky’ business
• In-calf heifer makes €1,950 as Simmental sale goes online
• ‘There will come a point when we won’t have any ash left in Ireland’
• Hopes of a cure lie with research on ash strains with natural resistance to the disease
• Farmer forced to fell the trees that should have been his cover for a secure retirement
• Keeping trees on the straight and narrow can yield big dividends
• A chance for your forest to win a €2,000 award
• Taking it to the Maxx with Kuhn
• Country getaway in heart of Dublin’s commuter belt guided at €650,000
• Compact holdings with big potential
• Limerick farm sold to a local buyer for ‘north’ of €900,000
• ‘My facility is closer to a surgeon’s operating theatre than it is to a field’
• I’m mad for road, yearning to watch Ireland go about its daily business like it did before Covid

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