Irish Independent - Farming - 2024-02-13

• ‘All ACRES farmers to get payment this month’
• Countrywid­e enjoys a bounce in listeners
• Dairy volumes back due to weather, prices and farmer fatigue
• ‘Ferry firms can’t bow to pressure on calf exports’
• AIB chequebook deliveries ‘from this week’
• Applicatio­n numbers key to forestry planting rate
• No level of slurry export fraud is acceptable – Minister McConalogu­e
• Farmers’ Alliance chief left as approval beckoned
• EU scraps pesticide proposals in latest concession to farmer protests
• Spanish farmers protest over EU policies and prices
• Quick-fix online remedies are like Tinder profiles – too good to be true
• It cost me more to register my dairy bull calf than he is worth – is euthanasia such a bad option?
• Planting hedges involves extra cost and effort for sheep farmers – but it’s worth it
• How the Decision Support Service could be a big help in many farm households
• ‘Don’t let the farm creep into your downtime together – it can easily take over’
• ‘Make it your business to spend quality time with each other as a couple’
• ‘It’s important to remember who you are as a person and take time to do things you enjoy, aside from farming’
• Young bull sales figures underline benefits of cows calving in July and August
• You can make serious savings by stretching seed supplies
• Sexed semen has been a big hit for us – despite a couple of problems
• Brighter times on horizon as hogget quotes rise by up to 20c/kg
• ‘The Friesian bullock could very well be consigned to history in a few years’
• IN THE KNOW
• AROUND THE SHEEP MARTS
• Quotes drop as ‘numbers keep coming’
• ‘We often have over 2,000 people viewing an auction’
• How a Eureka moment brought Irish land sales to a global audience
• 20ac of prime Meath land with business and residentia­l potential guided at €22,000/ac
• Why this Mullingar farmer switched from dairy to growing feed for organic livestock
• ‘If you don’t get your soil sampled, you could be throwing money away on fertiliser and slurry’
• Valentine lessons from the ancient Greeks’ eight types of love

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