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

- Silage season kicks off and a difficult year ‘demands farmer understanding’ say contractors

- Sinn Fein’s Claire Kerrane says ‘CAP should support food production’

- Government trade mission to China

- First peak milk prices announced and Kerry Group suppliers to get 2022 top-up payment

- Minister examining turf cutting impact on commonage in ACRES

- The walk from the field to the mart

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

- Retailers must protect prices paid to farmers, says government minister

- Tirlán reports 36% jump in turnover to €3bn

- EU Commissioner, Mairéad McGuinness, says some farming policy choices were ‘not the right ones’

- Moving Balmoral Show was a stroke of genius

- ‘We partied ’til the cows came home’

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

- Retailers cut milk and butter prices

- CCPC examining fertiliser sector complaints

- 41,000 farmers apply for liming scheme

- Dutch farmers to be paid to stop breeding

- 600 landowners object to zoned land tax

- Creosote ban for farm fencing comes into force

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

- New rural political party proposed by Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice

- Macra marches from Athy to the Dáil to highlight challenges for young farmers

- Former Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, won’t contest next election

- Irish beef imports return to China

- Department criticised for farm plastics recycling scheme

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

- More milk price cuts announced for March

- Libyan order for 2,500 Irish cattle cancelled due to visa delay

- Gardaí urge farmers to ‘beef up’ security on yards

- Department develops ‘outline’ of ‘forgotten’ farmers scheme

- Student finalists in Certified Irish Angus Schools competition

- Fox attacks freshly-calved cow

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

- Michael O’Leary warns that ‘looney ideas’ from the eco lobby will increase food prices

- Devenish lands at Dowth to go up for sale with guide of €10m

- Firearms committee recommends licensing changes

- GPS thefts warning

- Young Kerry farmer to host new travel TV show

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

- Department to conduct 500 nitrates inspections this year

- ESB compensation rates for farmers and landowners

- National Food and Fodder Security Committee to reconvene and meet next week

- Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity

- Calls for mink eradication

- Leitrim students’ farm safety invention

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

- Calf exports disrupted again – this time due to an incident at a French lairage

- Vet issues warning of labelling of farm chemicals

- Proposal to double fines for owners of uncontrolled dogs

- Castleblayney Mart meeting hears frustration of farmers

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

-       Minister opens €265m suckler and beef support schemes:

-       Sheep Ireland factory levy to rise by 8c/head from April 1st:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/sheep-ireland-factory-levy-to-rise-by-8c-head-from-april-1/

-       Dog walkers allegedly assault farmer in Co. Wicklow:

-       Minister addresses concerns on creosote ban:

-       Mallow to Dungarvan greenway plans cause concern for farmers:

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

- Minister urged to investigate regional price disparity in fertiliser:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/minister-urged-to-investigate-regional-price-disparity-in-fertiliser/

- Processors announce further sharp milk price cuts:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/milk-price-cuts-are-unsustainable-icmsa/

- Calf export sailings disrupted again this week:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/calf-exports-to-france-impacted-by-industrial-action/

- New scheme announcements:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/banding-and-nitrates-derogation-deadlines-extended/

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/e8m-national-liming-programme-opens-to-farmers/

- More calls for action in the wake of dog attacks on sheep this week:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/gardai-investigate-dog-attack-that-left-two-ewes-dead-in-donegal/

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