The Farming Week: Recent Episodes
Agriland Media
A week is a long time in farming, not just in politics, but you can keep up-to-date with all the latest news and stories from Irish agriculture with Agriland's latest podcast, The Farming Week.
Presenter Aisling O'Brien is joined each week by Agriland journalists with their top stories from The Farming Week.
Francess McDonnell & Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- EU cuts Ireland’s nitrates derogation
- 3,000 farmers must adjust to new nitrates limit
- Farmers protest over delayed payments
- Government U-turn on part of concrete levy
- ACRES farmers must complete training course
- Electric Picnic organisers meet farmers over harvest concerns
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Eva Osborne-Sherlock & Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Minister to make case for nitrates derogation next week
- Fertiliser database kicks in
- Burning and hedge cutting window opens
- Farmers say new Electric Picnic dates will impact harvest
- IFA to meet EPA over red meat tweet
- The pothole to beat all others
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Eva Osborne-Sherlock & Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- DAFM to backdate extra TB compensation due to farmers
- Almost 2,500 farmers sent satellite inspection notices
- Global milk markets give little hope to dairy farmers
- EU approves €45m sustainable forest management scheme
- Donegal sheep farmer wins FBD Young Farmer of the Year
- Armagh takes Baileys Cow title for 2023 with Meath-bred cow
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Eva Osborne-Sherlock & Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Budget for 2023 Liming Programme doubled to €16m
- July milk prices - Lakeland Dairies reduces price, Kerry Group announces base price of 34c/L with 3c/L payment
- Change at the helm in Glanbia
- Investigation into suspected ‘criminal damage’ in Tipperary after bales set on fire
- Why are blackberries appearing early this year?
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Stella Meehan & Francess McDonnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Dairy Industry Ireland and Irish Co-operative Organisation Society come out against dairy exit scheme
- Minister launches new farm succession scheme with grants up to €1,500
- Up to 200 farmers protest in Offaly after River Shannon floods
- ‘I’ve never seen a wet July like this before’, warning that this month will 'be the making or the breaking of farms'
- ‘Irish Grass Fed Beef’ PGI proposal moves to next stage
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Stella Meehan & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Minister announces €50/calf scheme for suckler farmers
- Commission approves €308m Irish afforestation scheme
- Fertiliser database change needed so it’s ‘fit for purpose’ – IFA
- Extensions for ACRES scorecards and shallow cultivation
- ‘Farmers should date other farmers’ says Katch CEO
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Stella Meehan & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Dairy & tillage farm incomes could drop by over 50% this year
- Call for DAFM to extend ACRES scorecard deadline
- Warning that farmers won’t produce lamb anymore
- ‘Blanket’ planning objections to slurry tanks
- Over half of young farmers binge drink
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Stella Meehan & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- ‘Wettest July on record’ causing ‘havoc’ on tillage farms
- 15% of farms need to make up fodder deficit – Teagasc survey
- Top-up payment demanded for milk suppliers
- Farm Safety Week: Martin Heydon warns summer is ‘most dangerous’ time on farms
- Cavan farmer building Ireland’s first snail processing plant
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Francess McDonnell & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- ‘No stone will be left unturned’ dairy bull calf welfare under the spotlight
- MEPs vote in favour of revised Nature Restoration Law
- Eamon Ryan says farming must change
- New Teagasc MACC aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Kerry Group milk suppliers back on picket line
- Beef Focus: 34 years farming from a wheelchair in Sligo
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Francess McDonnell & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Battle to retain nitrates derogation – ICMSA says government wants family dairy farms ‘gone’
- Moorepark Dairy Day - sustainability in the face of challenges
- Cavan farmer ‘lucky to be alive’ after fall into slurry pit
- ACRES advisors under ‘significant mental stress’
- Crucial Nature Restoration Law vote next week
- On the Record – Anna May McHugh, queen of Irish ploughing
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Stella Meehan & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- EU environment committee rejects Nature Restoration Law
- No show from rural government TDs at Dáil debate on cow cull
- 4,750 farmers to get satellite inspection notifications, says DAFM
- Wexford farmers assess cost of crop damage from hail
- IFA considers postal ballot for national elections
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Go beyond the headlines with our new podcast series – Agri-Focus – where we take a closer look at some of the key issues that directly impact on farmers, rural communities and the agri-sector.
In this first episode, Ciaran Fitzgerald, who is a food economist with over 30 years’ experience in the agri food sector and is a regular columnist at Agriland, joins Francess McDonnell to talk about a subject that is unavoidable in Ireland – politics and agriculture.
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Stella Meehan & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
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Kerry Group milk suppliers take to the streets – ‘This is only the start of this campaign’
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Environment ministers adopt Nature Restoration Law
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Potential to create 230 new places for veterinary medicine annually
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Dairy exit scheme is ‘the beginning of the end for family farms’
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National herd falls by over 550,000 head in 20 years
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Aisling O'Brien & Breifne O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
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New Beef Welfare Scheme to open in July
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The reality behind milk price and cost of production
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No significant improvement in water quality - nitrogen levels too high in 40% of Irish rivers
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Nature Restoration Law vote - Environment committee voting on rewetting postponed
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Average dairy farmer income over €150,000 in 2022
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Department advises ‘extreme caution’ around invasive moth
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Aisling O'Brien & Francess McDonnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
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Farmers battle drought conditions
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EU milk price correction ‘now passed’
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IFA presidential election kicks off
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14,000t of beef imported into Ireland
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Supermarket price wars intensify
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Aisling O'Brien & Francess McDonnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Rewetting controversy continues in Dáil and on the streets
-Minister formally announces €43m genotyping programme
-Almost 130,000 farmers apply for BISS and other schemes
-Green TD calls for live exports to end
-Vet issues appeal after 8 calves killed by slurry fumes
-Bogs to be developed for recreation activities
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Francess McDonnell and Stella Meehan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Farmers won’t be forced to rewet their land, says Minister Ryan
-More deaths involving tractors this week – a reminder about safety at this busy time
-Farmers warn below-cost selling ‘has to stop’
-EPA: Ammonia emissions up nearly 1% in 2021
-Additional income streams highlighted at agri-tourism conference
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Francess McDonnell and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Silage season kicks off and a difficult year ‘demands farmer understanding’ say contractors
-Sinn Fein’s Claire Kerrane says ‘CAP should support food production’
-Government trade mission to China
-First peak milk prices announced and Kerry Group suppliers to get 2022 top-up payment
-Minister examining turf cutting impact on commonage in ACRES
-The walk from the field to the mart
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Stella Meehan and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Retailers must protect prices paid to farmers, says government minister
-Tirlán reports 36% jump in turnover to €3bn
-EU Commissioner, Mairéad McGuinness, says some farming policy choices were ‘not the right ones’
-Moving Balmoral Show was a stroke of genius
-‘We partied ’til the cows came home’
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Francess McDonnell and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Retailers cut milk and butter prices
-CCPC examining fertiliser sector complaints
-41,000 farmers apply for liming scheme
-Dutch farmers to be paid to stop breeding
-600 landowners object to zoned land tax
-Creosote ban for farm fencing comes into force
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Stella Meehan and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-New rural political party proposed by Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice
-Macra marches from Athy to the Dáil to highlight challenges for young farmers
-Former Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, won’t contest next election
-Irish beef imports return to China
-Department criticised for farm plastics recycling scheme
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Francess McDonnell and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-More milk price cuts announced for March
-Libyan order for 2,500 Irish cattle cancelled due to visa delay
-Gardaí urge farmers to ‘beef up’ security on yards
-Department develops ‘outline’ of ‘forgotten’ farmers scheme
-Student finalists in Certified Irish Angus Schools competition
-Fox attacks freshly-calved cow
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
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Michael O’Leary warns that ‘looney ideas’ from the eco lobby will increase food prices
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Devenish lands at Dowth to go up for sale with guide of €10m
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Firearms committee recommends licensing changes
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GPS thefts warning
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Young Kerry farmer to host new travel TV show
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Department to conduct 500 nitrates inspections this year
-ESB compensation rates for farmers and landowners
-National Food and Fodder Security Committee to reconvene and meet next week
-Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity
-Calls for mink eradication
-Leitrim students’ farm safety invention
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
-Calf exports disrupted again – this time due to an incident at a French lairage
-Vet issues warning of labelling of farm chemicals
-Proposal to double fines for owners of uncontrolled dogs
-Castleblayney Mart meeting hears frustration of farmers
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
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Minister opens €265m suckler and beef support schemes:https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-opens-e265m-suckler-and-beef-support-schemes/
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Sheep Ireland factory levy to rise by 8c/head from April 1st:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/sheep-ireland-factory-levy-to-rise-by-8c-head-from-april-1/
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Dog walkers allegedly assault farmer in Co. Wicklow:https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/walker-with-dogs-alleged-to-have-assaulted-wicklow-landowner/
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Minister addresses concerns on creosote ban:https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-dafm-working-with-industry-on-creosote-alternatives/
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Mallow to Dungarvan greenway plans cause concern for farmers:https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/heartbroken-farm-family-fears-the-worst-if-greenway-goes-ahead/
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Minister urged to investigate regional price disparity in fertiliser:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-urged-to-investigate-regional-price-disparity-in-fertiliser/
- Processors announce further sharp milk price cuts:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/milk-price-cuts-are-unsustainable-icmsa/
- Calf export sailings disrupted again this week:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/calf-exports-to-france-impacted-by-industrial-action/
- New scheme announcements:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/banding-and-nitrates-derogation-deadlines-extended/
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/e8m-national-liming-programme-opens-to-farmers/
- More calls for action in the wake of dog attacks on sheep this week:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/gardai-investigate-dog-attack-that-left-two-ewes-dead-in-donegal/
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
- Bord Bia looking to hire new auditors to meet new SBLAS demand:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/farmers-advised-to-schedule-sblas-audit-as-applications-rise/
- Work underway on new Irish fertiliser manufacturing facility:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/work-underway-on-new-irish-fertiliser-manufacturing-facility/
- Committee to discuss impact of creosote ban on fencing supplies:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/committee-to-discuss-impact-of-creosote-ban-on-fencing-supplies/
- Climate targets without suckler herd reduction ‘almost impossible’:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/climate-targets-without-suckler-herd-reduction-almost-impossible/
- Keenan owner confirms redundancies in pipeline:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/keenan-owner-confirms-redundancies-in-pipeline/
- Calls for action on badger baiting:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/uspca-calls-for-action-on-badger-baiting/
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture which this week include:
- After all the anticipation, ‘all valid ACRES applicants’ have been accepted:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-all-valid-acres-applicants-to-be-accepted/
- TB compensation increases and additional test payment agreed:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/tb-compensation-increase-agreed-icmsa/
- DAFM to consider ending requirement for ‘blue cards’:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dafm-to-consider-ending-requirement-for-blue-cards/
- Increasing trend of contractors exiting business:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/fci-increasing-trend-of-contractors-exiting-business/
- Bluefaced Leicester delivers sextuplets in Co. Cavan:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/bluefaced-leicester-delivers-sextuplets-in-co-cavan/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
· TAMS 3 has opened and DAFM releases list of included items:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dafm-unveils-new-tams-3-list/
· DAFM confirms the nitrates banding options for farmers:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-confirms-banding-options-for-dairy-farmers/
· Fertiliser price issues again – Danny Healy Rae calls for an investigation into disparity between Irish and other EU countries’ prices:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/healy-rae-fertiliser-prices-need-to-be-investigated/
· Government’s cost of living package – TBESS to be extended and access will be enhanced and details of plans on excise duties on fuels:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/tbess-to-be-extended-and-enhanced-under-cost-of-living-package/
· Farmers to push ahead with establishment of new group after Athlone meeting:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/farmers-to-push-ahead-with-new-group-after-athlone-meeting/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
· New government-funded climate study has led to outrage & controversy:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/study-climate-target-needs-livestock-cut-more-trees-and-rewetting/
· 75% of farmers are worried about input costs:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ifac-farm-report-75-of-farmers-deeply-concerned-over-inputs/
· Milk prices fall:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/lakeland-milk-price-down-6c-l-for-january-milk/
· IFA sheep protest in Roscommon may not be the last demonstration:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-protest-may-not-be-enough-ifa-sheep-chair/
· EU citizens recommend actions on food waste:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/eu-citizens-recommend-23-actions-on-food-waste-to-commission/
· New Zealand, Kenya & Korea – the agriculture ministers are heading across the globe for St Patrick’s Day:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mcconalogue-to-visit-new-zealand-this-st-patricks-day/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
· Concerns over potential drop in milk prices for farmers:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/icmsa-urges-co-ops-to-avoid-knee-jerk-reaction-on-milk-price/
· Meat Industry Ireland report - Beef factories to back farmers to cut greenhouse gases
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mii-report-beef-factories-to-back-farmers-to-cut-ghgs/
· ICMSA claims that some farmers are being refused quotes for fertiliser prices
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/some-fertiliser-retailes-refusing-to-quote-farmers-icmsa/
· Land values increased by 11.5% in 2022
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/sherry-fitzgerald-2022-land-values-grew-by-11-5/
· Concerns about the impact of rural planning laws on the children of farmers wishing to build houses
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/rural-housing-rules-catastrophic-for-sons-and-daughters-of-farmers/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
- Salmonella – confirmed in eight broiler flocks around Ireland
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dafm-salmonella-confirmed-in-8-poultry-flocks/
- Burning Bushes - the exemption for the controlled burning of green waste generated in agricultural clearing has been extended
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/final-regulations-signed-on-burning-of-agricultural-green-waste/
- Women’s Dialogue - the National Dialogue on Women in Ag took place in Portlaoise on Wednesday
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/appoint-more-women-to-state-boards-mcconalogue/
- Sheep farmers risked their lives in the snow – Kerry TD, Michael Healy Rae claims the Dept. of Agriculture may have put the lives of some sheep farmers at risk
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dafm-endangered-lives-of-hill-sheep-farmers-during-cold-snap-td/
- Death of Padraig Walshe – remembering the former IFA president Padraig Walshe who passed away this week
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/sadness-as-former-ifa-president-passes-away/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
- Key points from the IFA AGM included discussions on the dairy reduction scheme, genotyping, and the crisis in the sheep sector:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/eligibility-of-sheep-sector-for-brexit-fund-supports-to-be-explored/
- Tension and opposition to Coillte forestry deal continues to increase:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ifa-to-meet-coillte-and-discuss-forestry-deal-tomorrow/
- Details of the new TB testing requirements coming into force next month:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/no-disruption-to-cattle-sales-with-new-tb-rules-icos/
- Dawn Meat’s move to buy Kildare Chilling generates significant interest:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dawn-meats-in-deal-to-buy-kildare-chilling/
- Global dairy co-op Fonterra says that from June, male or non-dairy calves cannot be slaughtered without a humane reason, they must be used for either a meat or pet-food chain purpose:
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/fonterra-moves-to-stop-calf-slaughtering-on-farms/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
- Chaos in the sheep sector
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/sheep-trade-lamb-quotes-fall-below-e6-00-kg/
- Anger on the forestry deal
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/climate-action-plan-td-accuses-government-of-betrayal/
- Tirlán survey on fodder supplies, showing half of respondents are tight for fodder or in a deficit
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/survey-fodder-supplies-could-be-an-issue-with-tirlan-suppliers/
- The death of Carrie Acheson, the ‘voice’ of the Ploughing Championships
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/tributes-paid-after-death-of-voice-of-the-ploughing-carrie-acheson/
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Catch up on the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture with Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien, including:
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A beef herd reduction scheme is ‘off the table’, Minister McConalogue confirmed this week, but a similar scheme for the dairy sector is still under consideration
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/beef-herd-reduction-scheme-off-the-table-mcconalogue/ -
Record Bord Bia export results of €16.7 billion demonstrate the importance of agriculture to the Irish economy, say farming organisations
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/agri-food-export-value-increases-by-22-to-e16-7-billion-in-2022/
- Fallout continues from the Coillte forestry partnership with a UK investment fund – the minister is set to meet with the semi-state forestry company to discuss the deal
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/coillte-forestry-fund-deal-did-not-require-approval-from-minister/
- A working group is to be established in a bid to improve dog control
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/working-group-on-dog-control-to-be-established/
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Megan O’Brien and Stella Meehan discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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The final draft of Climate Action Plan 2023 has been adopted, but what does it mean for Irish farming?
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There could be some Christmas spirit shown with the possibility of more funding put in place for the thousands of farmers who didn’t get approved for ACRES
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From live cribs to toy appeals and tractor runs, farming communities have come out in force this Christmas to spread goodwill and cheer
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Megan O’Brien and Stella Meehan discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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The Government has been heavily criticised by the IFA over its inaction in relation to horrific dog attacks on livestock this week
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Teagasc has given their 2023 outlook for Irish agriculture, forecasting cattle prices to rise with a fall for milk
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Farmers to receive €28m in BDGP payments in ‘coming days’
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Calls to extend ACRES scheme
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Lakeland withdraws peak milk management scheme for new milk
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Megan O’Brien and Stella Meehan discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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Limerick AI company buys Belgian Blue bull for €52,500
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EU agrees to block beef or soya linked to deforestation
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Beef farmers to get €42 million in support payments
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Cost of production predicted to reach €2,331/cow in 2023
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Live animal crib opens at St. Stephen’s Green
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Stella Meehan is joined by Francess McDonald and Breifne O’Brien to discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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Agri-food regulator to be established – what will this mean for farmers?
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Top prices paid at Winter Fair in Carrick-on-Shannon
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Final report from the Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group is released
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Livestock thefts in Kilkenny and west Cork
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Christopher Tuffy from Sligo is named FBD Young Farmer of the Year
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Megan O’Brien is joined by Aisling O’Brien and Breifne O’Brien to discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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Heated exchanges at IFA beef meeting in Laois
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Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group impasse
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€20m Sheep Improvement Scheme is opens for applications
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Agricultural consultants confident that there will be close to 30,000 ACRES applications by deadline
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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Bird flu has been discovered in a turkey flock in county Monaghan – but it won’t affect the Christmas supply
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Oireachtas agri-committee makes 19 recommendations to a proposed vet medicines and fertiliser bill
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TAMS investment ceilings and what can be expected?
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Abandoned pigs in Co. Cavan – the worrying rise of these incidents across Ireland
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Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien discuss the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture including:
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COP27 is underway and the IFA have travelled over to ensure Irish farmers have their say on the vital climate change negotiations
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The ACRES deadline has been extended, what does it mean for farmers and advisors?
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The much anticipated EU Commission communication on fertiliser was adopted this week but there hasn’t been a great response to it
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Seeds in space, just why are seeds being tested by astronauts in space?
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On the latest Farming Week podcast, presenter, Stella Meehan, is joined by Agriland journalist, William Kellett, to discuss all the top farming stories of the week including the poultry lockdown due to rising avian influenza cases, the announcement of details for next season’s Fodder Support Scheme, the ‘forgotten farmers’ who get no support from the government, and tornado-like weather hits Wexford.
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The new department guidelines on slurry agitation points, the Food Vision Dairy Group’s final report, the Kerry IFA row rumbles on, and why Dublin airport has ordered 40 Masseys for Christmas.
Presenter Aisling O’Brien is joined by Agriland journalists Megan O’ Brien and William Kellett with all the top farming stories on The Farming Week podcast.
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The ACRES scheme has formally opened, bird flu cases are on the rise, how to increase your forestry income, progress on the dairy group discussions and deadly quad bikes at Christmas – it’s all covered on the latest episode of Agriland’s The Farming Week podcast.
Presenter Francess McDonnell is joined by Agriland journalists Megan O’ Brien and Rubina Freiberg to bring you all the top Irish farming stories in 20 minutes or less.
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Land prices are rising again, fertiliser costs are up 127% since August 2021 and water supplies are still an issue in parts of Cork and Limerick – it’s the latest episode of The Farming Week with Francess McDonnell, Breifne O’Brien and William Kellett covering all the latest from Irish agriculture in 20 minutes or less.
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Tirlán milk suppliers were sent the wrong statements in the post, IFA protests in Cavan have been stood down, and the average, annual dairy farm income set to hit €130,000 are just some of the main Irish agricultural stories being discussed on the latest episode of The Farming Week podcast.
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Budget 2023 was the largest fiscal package ever and on the latest episode of The Farming Week, Aisling O'Brien and William Kellett discuss the main details affecting Irish farmers.
There's also an update on the IFA pig, poultry and egg protest in Cavan, plus, what is world's best steak and how does Irish steak compare?
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There’s only one place for farmers and politicians to be this week and that’s been at the Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co. Laois.
On the latest episode of The Farming Week, Agriland’s Aisling O’Brien and William Kellett, bring you the biggest talking points and stories from the event, including Leo Varadkar on why farmers are not to blame for climate change; the renewal of the Tillage Incentive Scheme; Teagasc Director, Frank O’Mara, on the 30,000 dead calves; plus President Higgins rails against below-cost selling.
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From the proposed reduction in CAT Agri-Relief, to a €16,000 grass seed theft in Co. Meath as well as a preview of Ploughing 2022, this week, Agriland’s Aisling O’Brien and William Kellett have all the top stories from Irish agriculture in 20 minutes or less.
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Agriland's Aisling O’Brien and William Kellett discuss the dead calves in Limerick, the government’s plan to ban new installations of gas and oil boilers in homes, Charlie McConalogue's caution about extending the deadline for the Fodder Support Scheme, and why the world has to produce as much food protein in the next 30 years as it has in the last 2,000 years in order to feed a growing global population.
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Agriland's Stella Meehan and William Kellett discuss the top stories from the Farming Week in twenty minutes or less and on this episode, with Glanbia Ireland renaming itself Tirlán, many native speakers have been up in arms over the missing fada, while other farmers are wondering what it’s all about. Remember Marathon to Snickers anyone?
Meanwhile, the European Commission has approved the CAP Strategic Plans for Ireland while, tragically, there were more farm fatalities, this time in Wexford and Tipperary, and a reminder to farmers that the deadline for spreading fertiliser is fast approaching.
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The Farming Week has seen gangs trespassing on farm lands with one farmer told to choose his burial site on his own land; CAP plans for the dairy beef scheme to focus on ‘keeping calves on island’; the Kerry IFA vice-chair, John Joe Fitzgerald, resigning and leaving the association; and the closure in Cavan of another unique rural shop.
Agriland's Aisling O'Brien and Megan O’Brien take you through the real stories from the Farming Week.
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From bog slides to tillage derogations, Minister McConalogue at the Tullamore Show, and eating an Irish only diet, Agriland's Aisling O'Brien and William Kellett take you through the real stories from the Farming Week.
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A week is a long time in farming, not just in politics, but you can keep up-to-date with all the latest news and stories from Irish agriculture with Agriland's latest podcast, The Farming Week.
Presenter Aisling O'Brien is joined each week by Agriland journalists with their top stories from The Farming Week.
Launching Friday 19th August with new episodes weekly on Fridays.