At the beginning of March, I planned to write an editorial around how lucky the sector was during Covid-19 in that it was continuing uninterrupted as the weather improved in spring.
Food safety authorities across Europe are on high alert for a possible upsurge in food fraud after two shipments of horsemeat were seized recently.
Over the past few weeks, we have dosed all the lambs with a white wormer to ensure cover for Nematodirus, on the back of the high risk warnings issued by the Department of Agriculture for the parasite.
Ireland is in a golden age for archaeological discoveries as new technology and droughts expose thousands of ancient sites and monuments.
With the lockdown starting to ease and big players such as McDonald's preparing for a phased return to normal trading, factory prices here continue to improve.
What are we going to do if live exports are banned? It is an unlikely outcome from the current horse-trading between the Greens and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but it may not be as far-fetched as many Irish farmers would like to think.
A booming trade for marginal land has seen large tracts of ground in the west being purchased by commercial farmers from the midlands, south and east.
