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Lessons from Newford farm open day
Jack Kennedy
The challenge for Newford is that in 2022 costs went in the wrong direction. This happened on all farms.
24 May 2023 Amii
Editorial: Policy vying for a better world without a sting in the tail
In fairy tales, a happy ending is expected but a positive outcome is often not the case in the real world. Beware the law of unintended consequences writes Amii McKeever
24 May 2023 Viewpoints
Rewetting plans revisited
The impact of the Nature Restoration law is just too big to ignore.
Milk pricing review 2022
We have moved to bringing more analysis on the financial reporting of the dairy co-ops.
24 May 2023 Viewpoints
Editorial: our historic and tragic past is unfortunately someone else’s present
Our history may be consigned to the past but the famine and the indentured lives of the Irish people are still within living memory. We should not lose sight of that.
17 May 2023 Features
Tirlán – big moves with more to come
The best time to test a co-op structure is when the milk price pressure is on – that wasn’t 2022.
10 May 2023 Viewpoints
Editorial: the prioritisation great trade-off
Between hard-wired perceptions, societal expectations and the pure limitations of time, Amii McKeever believes it reasonable to suggest that neither sex can truly have it all.
10 May 2023 Amii
Tillage decline for Irish farmers
Pressures from outside of tillage on livestock farmers is making land leasing more competitive and driving up the cost.
10 May 2023 Viewpoints
Balmoral buzzing this week
It was also striking to see so many cars from south of the border in the car park, reflecting just how accessible this superb venue is to visitors from across the island of Ireland.
10 May 2023 Viewpoints
Construction cost comparisons
Farm building work will be limited unless absolutely essential.
10 May 2023 Viewpoints
Matching green ambition with practical reality
No more than any other business, those farmers that have the financial and technical knowledge to sustain and grow a business will survive and thrive.
3 May 2023 Viewpoints
Competition in solar market
The new solar tariff guarantees a premium of 10 c/kWh exported on top of the 24 c/kWh export rate.
3 May 2023 Viewpoints