Mexican authorities said on Tuesday they had found 29 bodies, packed in more than 100 plastic bags, dumped in a clandestine grave in the violent western state of Jalisco.
Both Brendan Egan of Castlerea Mart and Maurice Brosnan of Gortatlea feel that the factory protests are starting to have a noticeable effect on the mart trade.
Payments worth €168.5 million under the 2019 Areas of Natural/Specific Constraints Scheme and Areas of Specific Constraint (Islands) Scheme, have commenced issuing this week to almost 79,000 farmers.
A farmer who was protesting at Bord Bia today at the Ploughing Championships asked how can he ask his son to give up his job to go farming.
Agriculture's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are now very much in the spotlight, with the need for a reduction stressed by the Climate Change Advisory Council annual report as well as the Government's Climate Action Plan.
Near-record prices were paid for pedigree Charolais stock at the dispersal sale of the Skidoo Herd on Saturday when leading breeders vied for some elite bloodlines, reports Martin Ryan.
Boortmalt has declined to comment on claims that it has imported at least one shipload of malt over the last month.
