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Positivity mixed with unknowns needs leadership
Jack Kennedy
The 2023 results do nothing to recognise what is happening at farm level as the rug is being pulled from under farmers.
Positivity mixed with unknowns needs leadership
Colm McCarthy: how many airports is enough?
24 April 2024 Viewpoints
Colm McCarthy: how many airports is enough?
Some countries subsidise regional airports for understandable reasons – the Scottish and Greek islands or the remote Arctic provinces of Scandinavia are examples.
Home Farm: drying out at last
24 April 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: drying out at last
Every fine day is making a huge difference to ground conditions.
Dempsey at Large: food, fuel and fibre
The comfort of adequate supplies in more recent years has pushed food security way down the priority list until the war in Ukraine caused a temporary panic.
24 April 2024 Viewpoints
Weather boost mentally positive
Of even more significance is the positive mental lift the dry weather is bringing to farmers all over the country.
24 April 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: stabilising the tillage industry
The establishment of the Food Vision tillage group rightly identified that a more fundamental appraisal of the place of tillage in Ireland is needed.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
The Home Farm: slurry above slats
The spring of 2024 is the worst I ever remember as regards grazing conditions.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
Weather up but lots to do on tillage farms
At long last the forecast looks like we might get a few dry days together. Important not to panic, take deep breaths and plan properly.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
Tillage emergency fund but still no land use policy
With dry weather in the forecast and little or no spring planting completed, the €40 per acre might pale into insignificance but it at least has arrived.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
Beef: winter finishing confidence low
Beef farmers are not immune to the wet weather and winter essentially has been extended to eight months in the northwest.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
View from China: Australian agtech under the spotlight
Perth has the highest proportion of Irish people of anywhere in Australia and with almost four months without rain, it’s easy to see how us Irish can get used to the sun, sea and sand.
17 April 2024 Viewpoints
Renewable revolution sweeping rural Ireland
The solution is to allow emissions reductions be discounted from total farm emissions.
10 April 2024 Viewpoints