With the weather taking a turn, it looks like the wheat septoria programmes we have been using are going to be really tested over the next few weeks.
"If God did not want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep."
Farmers whose loans are in the hands of so-called vulture funds may be able to save both their family home and farms, through a Personal Insolvency Arrangement, according to a farm finance specialist.
The Government's Climate Action Plan has 35 action points for agriculture. These include bringing forward the introduction of the Teagasc Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions report.
Climate action measures will not become the new quota for farming, holding back growth, Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has insisted.
The EU Commission has been accused of targeting the suckler sector in the conditions attached to the €100m Brexit support package for the Irish beef industry.
Governments have ignored organ harvesting in China to avoid acknowledging "an inconvenient truth", an independent tribunal in Britain has suggested.
