Changes to the Ornua Purchasing Price Index (PPI) have undervalued farmgate returns for July milk by close to €10m, or by €550 for the average dairy farmer, according to IFA estimates.
Farmers considering replacing equipment for the next silage season may be interested in Claas' launch of a refreshed line-up of their Disco mower range.
With so many empty spaces on our price table you could be forgiven for thinking that the sheep world had collapsed following the closure of Kildare Chilling last week.
On June 18, Kverneland Group Ireland was shrouded in darkness with the loss of our dear friend and colleague Paraic McCarthy, who will be sadly missed.
Some of the findings in Professor Michael Wallace's report on tillage bear repeating: the tillage industry in Ireland has been valued at €1.3 billion, supports 11,000 full-time equivalent jobs and is by far the most carbon-efficient of our main agricultural sectors.
The advent of the rotary combine in response to the need for ever more productive machines while keeping them a manageable size has, over the years, led to a division between the new high-capacity units and the traditional straw-walker-based harvester.
IT'S been a busy 2020 for Liam Hanrahan. As well as milking 180 cows in west Clare in partnership with his parents, he recently completed a PhD in dairy farming efficiency at Teagasc's research station in Moorepark.
