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Editorial: malting industry debate

The malting premium over feed is one of the bright lights for tillage farmers in terms of possibilities to improve margins. It always has been.

5 March 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Home Farm: all systems go

The first priority was to get the Roundup on the beans ground – it badly needs cleaning up before sowing.

5 March 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Colm McCarthy: planned restrictions at Dublin airport

Any restrictions on early morning aircraft movements are a particular headache for Aer Lingus.

5 March 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Editorial: fast-track planning must get green light

We need something very quickly on the nutrient storage side of the house for farmers.

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Dempsey at Large: Beef - a different protein

The consumer perception of grass-based food is hugely positive as we can see from the premium earned by Kerrygold butter.

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Beef welfare scheme: new scheme details

The animal health focus this week discusses the basics of calf rearing and inexpensive early animal health management issues that all farmers should refresh themselves on.

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Climate action plan: rewetting bombshell

Rewetting: if we don’t map out the impacts now, then when do we do it?

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Home Farm: Spring plans delayed

The beans are going into fields that had a terrible crop of winter barley, a bad crop of winter wheat and a reasonable crop of late sown spring barley.

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS

Gerry Boyle: tariffs a flawed legacy from a distant time

Trump’s gripe is that too many countries are running trade surpluses with the US, and as he thinks this is a bad thing, he wants to translate these surpluses into deficits.

26 February 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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