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

Capping brings new dynamic to payments

A progressive cap is to be applied to the new Farm Sustainability Payment.

NORTHERN IRELAND 5 March 2025

Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies

Good weather means a spring in the step of farmers planting crops, but the markets are not as bright as the weather, with tariffs (yet again) a threat.

OPINION 5 March 2025

Home Farm: Lime levels being counted

We don’t use that much lime, but it’s noticeable that even on just one farm that pH levels vary from one field with a pH of over 7.5 while a small grass paddock was analysed at 5.5.

VIEWPOINTS 5 March 2025

Colm McCarthy: It’s not just tariffs that could hurt – our taxes are targets too

The capital programme was halved in volume by 2014 and has only lately recovered to pre-crash levels.

VIEWPOINTS 5 March 2025

Dempsey at Large: Regulation must ensure technologies succeed

A price has been paid and the reputation and prospects of a technology with real promise has been damaged.

VIEWPOINTS 5 March 2025

Opinion: rewetting rules a triple threat, but tariffs more immediate worry

While Thursday's meeting on regulations affecting peatland management saw real farmer concerns raised, Donald Trump's latest pronouncements on trade are even more worrying.

OPINION 5 March 2025

Dempsey at Large: remembering Juliet Greene

Juliet's late husband Juan Greene was the NFA' s first President and was the necessary driving force in building a national organisation that could represent all Irish farmers.

VIEWPOINTS 5 March 2025

Home Farm: all systems go

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

VIEWPOINTS 5 March 2025

Is there a future farming marginal land?

Adam Woods takes a look at the plans on rewetting and what that means for small drystock farms in the north west of the country.

MANAGEMENT 5 March 2025

Technology for Profit: high standards with efficiency in mind

Brendan and Ciarán Brady, Cootehill, Co Cavan, exemplify how two generations can work together to maximise both the efficiency and profitability of a family-run dairy farm.

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Capping brings new dynamic to payments

Capping brings new dynamic to payments

Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies

Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies

MOST READ STORIES

Capping brings new dynamic to payments

Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies

Home Farm: Lime levels being counted

Colm McCarthy: It’s not just tariffs that could hurt – our taxes are targets too

Dempsey at Large: Regulation must ensure technologies succeed

Opinion: rewetting rules a triple threat, but tariffs more immediate worry

Dempsey at Large: remembering Juliet Greene

Home Farm: all systems go

Is there a future farming marginal land?

Technology for Profit: high standards with efficiency in mind

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