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ArticleCAP’S slide ‘into irrel­ev­ance’: Latest budget plan a ‘huge let­down’, say farm lead­ers

Hopes for a stronger Com­mon Agri­cul­tural Policy (CAP) budget took a fur­ther blow last week­end, leav­ing European farm­ers facing an unpre­ced­en­ted squeeze on dir­ect income sup­ports under the next seven-year EU fin­an­cial frame­work. As the...

ArticleMin­is­ter says TB pro­gramme fund­ing cut a ‘sign of suc­cess’

ArticleFeed prices take jump des­pite low grain returns

Meal prices have taken a jump across the board in recent weeks. Com­pound mills say lim­ited sup­plies of maize com­ing out of Ukraine, along with increased oil prices, a strength­en­ing US dol­lar, and this sum­mer’s drought in Europe, have all...

ArticleDepart­ment plans for 3,000ha des­pite its 8,000ha tar­get

The Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture is facing fresh scru­tiny over its forestry com­mit­ments, as state spend­ing plans reveal fund­ing for 2026 has been alloc­ated for just 3,000 hec­tares of new plant­ing – less than 38pc of the national policy tar­get.