With the harvest complete on my farm, it's almost time to put the combine away for another year, bar a few days cutting beans for local farmers.
The meat industry is set to ramp up pressure on the Government to ask the EU for money to support beef prices.
AURIVO, one of Ireland's largest milk producers, said yesterday it has completed a €6m investment in Donegal that will double production and slash fossil fuel use at its milk processing plant in Killygordon.
No government action is going to be able to increase the price of beef to the level farmers want, the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned.
No government action is going to increase beef prices to the level farmers want, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned.
There were sharp exchanges between farmers at a meeting of Limerick IFA after it was alleged that "prominent IFA members" had broken picket lines placed by beef protesters on meat factories.
Lower than normal conception rates in dairy herds are being blamed on high milk yields off grass this spring.
