editorial

The industry view is that the potato yield will be back 15% to 20%.

The very concept of grass-fed butter is being challenged head on. A tightening of the nitrates rules is forcing Irish milk suppliers to feed more silage and purchased concentrate.

It’s hard enough to get a return on conventional beef without a guaranteed market – it is even harder with organic beef.

They target expensive meal at young, growing lambs for a short period and grow high-protein crops with little inputs on land, that traditionally dries out in the summer.

As the first edition of the rebrand lands in your hands, we hope the hard work has paid off.

There are still only 2,700 farmers recording more than 25 weekly measurements across the year.

It is clear all farmers are holding back on purchasing, not alone tractors but other investments also, until they get some clarity and vision on where businesses can go.

Teagasc Grange researcher Nicky Byrne called out the margin from dairy-beef as a key determinant of keeping farmers rearing dairy-beef.