Irish Independent - Farming - 2024-03-19

• Lamb prices set to shatter records in weeks ahead
• More rainfall to compound farmer struggles
• EU simplifica­tion must go much further to ease the burden on farmers here
• ‘Trees worth more felled than standing in Brazil’
• Vote to ban supermarke­ts binning unsold food
• Milk prices at 40c/L as supplies hit by weather
• Limerick farmers protest against proposed Coolcappa wind farm
• Kerry Group’s outlook divides investors: short-sellers sceptical, analysts bullish
• ‘Majority’ of Land Commission records to finally be made available
• Can home-delivered ‘fake-aways’ be a hit against the odds in rural Ireland?
• Why scrubland owners should get back-pay now EU has changed its tune
• Times have changed – farm orgs should be fighting for an exit/ reduction package
• Our neighbour’s slurry spreading is ruining our new country idyll. Can we make him stop?
• Can you really afford to rent land? Ten questions you should be asking first
• I’m haunted by Sesame Street on a difficult day at the veterinary coalface
• Farming with minimal red tape in ‘the Ireland of the Southern Hemisphere’
• You can cut P and K use – but it hinges on soil indices and sticking to the rules
• The many benefits of slurry separation
• Tips for feed budgeting and grassland management in the unrelentin­g rain
• How to reduce the chances of infection at lambing time
• Big prices paid for organic stock on back of EU push – but can the sums add up?
• Spring lamb opens at €9.00+20c/kg QA, hogget rises again
• Declining kill forcing factories to raise prices
• IN THE KNOW
• AROUND THE SHEEP MARTS
• Local farmer pays €15,794/ac for 45ac of north Tipperary land
• A touch of country grandeur on 22ac
• ‘It was the seaweed that stopped me emigrating... now it’s worth €120/t’
• From Ukraine to the state of your wobbly bits – nothing beats a chat with an old pal

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