On this week’s Irish Farmers Journal Farming News podcast, we hear of the 15,000 farmers set to be hit with a splash plate ban for spreading slurry from January.

We discuss new nitrates plans aimed at grant aid storage facilities at 70% for those looking to import slurry and a new proposal to allow slurry tanks to bypass planning permission.

Recent positive signals around milk prices, a latest straw market update and shortages of blackleg vaccines are all covered too.

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