Irish Independent - Farming - 2018-12-04

• Eye in the sky technology set to replace farm inspection­s
• TB proposals will ‘stigmatise’ farmers and devalue stock
• Production cuts needed to get beef prices back on track — ICSA
• Department officials wash their hands of factories’ dirty sheep row
• Live exporters target lift in shipments to North Africa
• Food waste figures damaging our ‘green’ farming image
• Laois farmers escalate their protests against Eirgrid project
• Demands grow for new animal health probe in west Limerick
• New year hike in relief milking costs for farmers
• Whether it’s your time or money, give what you can this Christmas
• ‘I was told the queen was coming to tea’
• Fertiliser deadline extension has paid impressive dividends
• Why we need a radical and new approach to winter milk
• Revamped diet going is down a treat with the cows and our balance sheet
• Mayo lamb producer groups have stood the test of time
• Bird damage main threat to what looks to be exceptiona­l winter crops
• Don’t get caught offside by planning laws’ fine detail
• EU trade deal carve-up on quotas ‘dangerous’ for farmers, warns Carthy
• It’s time for us to ditch the ‘moaning farmer’
• Carbon-neutral targets up the ante on agricultur­e
• UK’S BREXIT LABOUR FEAR
• Image and embrace change
• Bayer cutting 12,000 jobs and exiting animal health business
• Horse sector faces labour crisis
• SCHEME PROVIDING THE PERFECT SPRINGBOAR­D FOR HORSE ENTHUSIAST­S
• Shortage of supply drives prices upward
• More slippage as confidence drains from the market
• IN THE KNOW
• Grim outlook as factories turn screw
• Chain reaction
• Casting the net wider in quest for optimum ewe productivi­ty
• Charolais season ends on a high
• Busy weekend of society shows
• Pedigree sale turns into a real ‘cracker’
• The fuel-consumptio­n-friendly hi-tech Case IH model was a double winner at the 2019 Tractor of the Year awards, writes
• Take the plunge in Wicklow
• Coastal holding guided at €7,000/ac
• Farm fetches €825,000 in tit-for-tat Tipp auction battle
• On the right track for €1.75m
• Josephine adds leader award to MACRA haul
• Ignore history and the past will come back to haunt us
• Music with Eddie Rowley
• ALL OVER EUROPE,THERE SEEMS TO BE FAILURE OF HISTORICAL MEMORY AND A FAILURE TO RECOGNISE SIGNS OF DANGER, THE KIND THAT WENT UNRECOGNIS­ED IN THE 1920S AND 1930S
• ‘What happens if we end up with a milk lake after all this expansion?’

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