Covid-19 continues to make a mockery of our plans for 2020. Few could have predicted a summer without the GAA or the Ploughing.
Lakeland Dairies' management have set a precedent for the rest of the dairy industry by sharing in the financial hit from the current milk price downturn.
Even on a breezy day the ventilation slits on my windows can cause the wind to moan menacingly, creating sounds that wouldn't be out of place in the opening scene of Macbeth.
Fungicide options for winter wheat are like a revolving door: as we gain some exciting new products, we are losing many more. But while the products may come and go, accurate spray timings are still key to disease control in wheat.
Listen carefully to the advice of those who have learned from their mistakes in the past. That's the message from JJ Farrell, a renowned breeder with the Trillick Hereford Herd in Co Longford, which has existed for almost three-quarters of a century.
'Factories," a sheep man from the east of the country declared on Saturday evening, "are buying sheep and time.
Is it time to talk about a carbon trading scheme for farmers? A proposed annual 7pc reduction in carbon footprint for the agricultural sector is a far cry from the 1.5pc target being set out in Government policy only last year.
