All the latest opinion and comments on the Irish agricultural industry from the Farmers Journal editorial team.
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.
Running the water supply and wastewater disposal system will cost the Exchequer up to €2 billion per annum if current ambitions are to be realised.
Reports suggest a small number of farmers have decided to walk away from the BPS regime.
Additional power needs new generation units and renewables, wind farms and solar arrays being the favoured options.
The most obvious contrast between 'then' and 'now' is the change in scale in every dimension of agriculture.
The original CAP, with its guaranteed intervention prices and export refunds, was designed to prevent severe fluctuations.
