Over two Monday nights I watched that excellent two-part television programme, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, broadcast on RTÉ and written by Ruán Magan.
Farmers have been advised to secure as much fertiliser as possible at current prices amid warnings that costs could harden by €30-40/t in the spring.
The ICBF has recently updated the gestation length figures based on insemination and calving data recorded over the past number of years.
The 48,000 farmers in GLAS will receive instructions this week on the procedures to follow to roll-over their participation in the agri-environment scheme.
The Government last week announced its most radical plan to reduce the environmental footprint of Irish farms.
New research in UCD Lyons estate has found that high output dairy systems can be both profitable and environmentally sustainable.
A Burren farmer was fined for felling trees on his lands without a licence, despite the court hearing the farmer “would consider some growth to be scrub as opposed to a tree".
