London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to buy data provider Refinitiv in a deal worth 27 billion US dollars (£22.3 billion).
INHFA President Colm O'Donnell has called on Minister Richard Bruton to suspend the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) over its proposal to cut the suckler herd.
Mixed weather in the last few weeks has seen harvest conditions get a little tricky in some parts of the country.
Taking a trip to Royal Meath, one doesn't expect to encounter too many dairy farms, but that is all changing as the sector continues to expand into areas where it never went before.
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro cancelled a meeting this week with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian - getting a haircut instead - amid deepening tensions over climate change policy that could endanger the EU-Mercosur trade accord.
If you're a beef finisher or suckler farmer, Professor John Fitzgerald's comments about protecting the dairy sector are about as inflammatory as it gets.
Scapegoats and sacrificial lambs are dominating farming utterances in the wake of the Climate Change Advisory Council's report. It may be a bit confusing for the non-farming types out there to realise that it's actually all about the bovines.
