Matt Dempsey

mdempsey@farmersjournal.ie

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 26 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: ingredients for EU food and drink exports

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Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

VIEWPOINTS 26 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: the slippery slope continues

Dempsey at Large: the slippery slope continues

VIEWPOINTS 19 November 2025

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

VIEWPOINTS 19 November 2025

Dempsey at Large: Carbon farming - potential or reality?

Dempsey at Large: Carbon farming - potential or reality?

Dempsey at Large: Carbon farming - potential or reality?

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

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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 22 October 2025

Dempsey at Large: Changes in prospect

Dempsey at Large: Changes in prospect

Farmers, under the new CAP, are going to depend to an increasing amount on Dublin rather than Brussels

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

All the wheat is now above ground with the tramlines becoming more visible by the day.

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

At this stage I am not sure whether we will apply an aphicide to the more barley yellow dwarf virus vulnerable variety.

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

Dempsey at Large: agriculture out on a limb

Dempsey at Large: agriculture out on a limb

If we are serious about generational renewal in Irish farming, as distinct from normal generational shifts in land ownership, then the most basic reappraisal of policy has to take place.

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

We seem to have been spared the intense downpours of the south and we have an abundance of aftergrass which we will graze paddock by paddock, moving the fence daily to avoid too much damage.

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

Dempsey at Large: throwing away half a billion euro

Dempsey at Large: throwing away half a billion euro

The other side of the coin has to be that policies that raise costs or penalise competitiveness have to be accompanied by appropriate compensation.

VIEWPOINTS 22 October 2025

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The farmers behind the Golden Arches

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