*This podcast is sponsored by AXA Farm Insurance.

Megan O’Brien and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture which this week include:

- After all the anticipation, ‘all valid ACRES applicants’ have been accepted:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-all-valid-acres-applicants-to-be-accepted/

- TB compensation increases and additional test payment agreed:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/tb-compensation-increase-agreed-icmsa/

- DAFM to consider ending requirement for ‘blue cards’:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dafm-to-consider-ending-requirement-for-blue-cards/

- Increasing trend of contractors exiting business:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/fci-increasing-trend-of-contractors-exiting-business/

- Bluefaced Leicester delivers sextuplets in Co. Cavan:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/bluefaced-leicester-delivers-sextuplets-in-co-cavan/

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