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All the latest opinion and comments on the Irish agricultural industry from the Farmers Journal editorial team.

Dempsey at Large: there is something not working in the grain market.

As European total food output declines, a trend that is also happening in Ireland, our policymakers should be looking at the factors that are operating against European and Irish growers.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

Colm McCarthy: reviewing promises in the Programme for Government

UK: if the economy grows quickly enough, the borrowing targets are credible.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

Don’t bet the farm on inheritance tax change

To date, senior Labour politicians have appeared unsympathetic to concerns raised by farmers.

NORTHERN IRELAND 19 March 2025

Home Farm: dry weather drives progress

The beans are in a full six weeks earlier than last year and there is now nothing left to sow.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

Dempsey at Large: ownership of breeding rights - a basic principle

We have deliberately built in ICBF a genetics-based organisation, where the data generated by farmers is owned by farmers.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

Gerry Boyle: ten years of catch-up after milk quotas

Quotas hampered our ability to optimise our efficiency, especially in respect of stocking rates and grass utilisation.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

1,300 sought for new CAFRE farm groups

An application window has opened for new Business Sustainability Groups.

NORTHERN IRELAND 19 March 2025

Colm McCarthy: evolution of EU's CAP

For a small open economy, it makes sense to encourage production in sectors where there is a prospect of domestic and export sales on advantageous terms.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

Colm McCarthy: planning system problems

Planning - the system is tilted against the vigorous pursuit of priorities which are acknowledged at national level.

VIEWPOINTS 19 March 2025

New for 2025: Syngenta enters grassland market with CASPER ®

Syngenta Ireland recently launched CASPER®, a new broadleaved weed herbicide for newly sown and established grassland.

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Dempsey at Large: there is something not working in the grain market.

Dempsey at Large: there is something not working in the grain market.

Colm McCarthy: reviewing promises in the Programme for Government

Colm McCarthy: reviewing promises in the Programme for Government

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Dempsey at Large: there is something not working in the grain market.

Colm McCarthy: reviewing promises in the Programme for Government

Don’t bet the farm on inheritance tax change

Home Farm: dry weather drives progress

Dempsey at Large: ownership of breeding rights - a basic principle

Gerry Boyle: ten years of catch-up after milk quotas

1,300 sought for new CAFRE farm groups

Colm McCarthy: evolution of EU's CAP

Colm McCarthy: planning system problems

New for 2025: Syngenta enters grassland market with CASPER ®

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