After several weeks of gradual price pulls, last weekend saw a return to more normal factory service, with prices for lamb slashed by 10-30c/kg.
Optimising performance of the sheep has always been a priority on the farm. We are always looking for ways to improve our system and to make life easier.
Farmers are still no wiser on some key concerns despite the policies unveiled in the Programme for Government.
So when is a grass-fed animal not a grass-fed animal? When it is a bull, apparently. I am referring, of course, to the latest marketing proposal for Irish beef being mooted by Bord Bia.
The small group of swimmers stood in the pale light of morning waiting to disrobe. Like a tribal elder, the man they'd been waiting for joined them on the beach. A round of applause and cheers greeted his arrival. It was good to have him back.
The new €50m beef support package announced by the Government of Agriculture could be used to compensate beef finishers who sold cattle over the past 12 months.
It is a question that has confounded humans since we first looked up at the night sky. Are we alone?
