Matt Dempsey

mdempsey@farmersjournal.ie

Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

An informed forum should be assembled immediately and a national policy developed.

VIEWPOINTS 17 December 2025

Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

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Home Farm: sophisticated solar

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

VIEWPOINTS 17 December 2025

Dempsey at Large: Teagasc looks to the future

Dempsey at Large: Teagasc looks to the future

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Dempsey at Large: TB control - more of the same

Dempsey at Large: TB control - more of the same

Dempsey at Large: TB control - more of the same

VIEWPOINTS 3 December 2025

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Home Farm: starting our solar journey

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

We dithered as to whether the wire should be buried beneath the yard or brought around overhead by being attached to the existing outhouses.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: ingredients for EU food and drink exports

Dempsey at Large: ingredients for EU food and drink exports

It’s hard to see the unwinding of the Mercosur deal, but we should at least press for food and drink sold within the EU and exported under an EU label to be made from EU ingredients.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

The dry, cooler weather has allowed us to graze out the remaining paddocks with light cattle. All the heavier ones are in at this stage.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: the slippery slope continues

Dempsey at Large: the slippery slope continues

Everyone recognised that sugar cane gave cheaper sugar but the goal of self sufficiency at national and then at EU level trumped the concept of comparative advantage in food production. Not any more.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

The key I am convinced, apart from draining obvious wet areas, is to avoid compaction during the sowing season.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: Carbon farming - potential or reality?

Dempsey at Large: Carbon farming - potential or reality?

There is scope to develop the concept of carbon farming where it can provide an income stream for farmers.

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

If the rain continues we will have to consider housing everything, though that would eat into our silage supplies and affect our store buying programme in the spring

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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