Irish Independent - Farming - 2024-03-05

• Farmers fear EU nature law will devalue property
• Make-up of the next Government will determine how much ‘restoratio­n’ occurs
• 55 notices issued for new quad bike rules breaches
• ‘€500m/year needed to compensate farmers’
• Minister calls for fertiliser reduction in grassland
• Sheep farmer: ‘When dogs draw blood, it gets serious’
• Dog rescue warns of surge in unplanned pregnancie­s among collies
• ‘Climate change will force potato growers to look beyond Roosters’
• Irish lenders slammed for ‘punishingl­y exorbitant’ farm loan rates amid France’s proposed 0pc offer
• Farming not recognised as top emitter by two-thirds of the public
• How can we give our farmers a fairer standard of living?
• How can we make more use of tech innovation?
• How can we support agricultur­e while safeguardi­ng our planet?
• How can we promote EU food in a competitiv­e world?
• ‘My late father told me he would leave me two old houses on the farm. But the will seems to say my brother gets one of them. Can you challenge a will?’
• In Cyprus Halloumi war, an ex-pilot champions the old ways
• Protests will achieve nothing unless they make specific demands
• Five tips to help calving go as smoothly as possible
• A middle-of-the-night crisis, a vanished farmer, and only the cat to lend a hand
• When this Kildare farmer’s car broke down on the other side of the world, his life changed forever
• Top tips for reducing losses at lambing time
• Which type of stores will turn the biggest profit?
• It is hard to make a case for not sowing beans this year
• Even if we sell a bull calf for €95, we are losing €100
• Joy to the sheep world as hogget quotes rise by another 20-30c/kg
• ‘Trade doesn’t add up’ as sharp mart price rises defy recent factory pulls
• Why the grid pricing structure needs to be radically overhauled
• IN THE KNOW
• AROUND THE SHEEP MARTS
• Value of land sales up 32pc in 2023, REA survey shows
• Power of dairy leaving tillage and beef farmers with no hope of competing
• I’ll be voting ‘yes’ to wipe disgracefu­l misogyny from our Constituti­on

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