All the latest opinion and comments on the Irish agricultural industry from the Farmers Journal editorial team.
A new Commissioner and a new Minister will be grappling with the same old problems facing farming.
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The first job is to get the slurry fully under control so that if we do get a prolonged spell of wet weather, there won’t be a problem with storage capacity under the slats.
If Ireland cut emissions to zero it would do nothing to address the global crisis.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have maintained the policy commitments they made during the general election campaign, but the funding pledges to back them up have disappeared.
His address was alarmingly short on specifics, and dealt almost entirely in generalisations.
I have never seen ground conditions as good in mid-January and the longer heavy rain stays away, the better for the next few weeks.
The Irish State has got into the habit of retrospectively assuming compensation risks, directly financed by the Exchequer.
Will asking consumers to pay more for food cost farming public support for the Common Agricultural Policy?
Whether grazing so late in the year was the right decision, I am not sure.
Given the dramatically different cost and regulatory obligations between the EU and Brazil, another way of facilitating two-way trade should have been developed.
