Many farmers are facing a stark choice of being forced to sell stock online or house as horrendous weather conditions over the weekend and late last week brought a sharp end to the grazing season in many areas.
MORE than 40 animals have been slaughtered at a farm in east Donegal in recent weeks following an outbreak of Bovine TB.
Draining a field or area of the farm will incur substantial capital investment. So the decision should be based on the potential for a return on the investment.
Irish farmers are lining up to have solar farms built on their land with one solar company receiving more than 50 enquiries from interested farmers every week.
The new Climate Bill going through the Dáil is anti-Irish, and this approach is being further locked in by the EU re-negotiation of our 2030 climate targets.
Why have farmers got such a toxic relationship with land? The tragedies in Kanturk had me mulling over this.
Large investment in state-of-the-art green-field farm developments may not be sustainable into the future, the dairy sector has been warned.
