Go beyond the headlines with our new podcast series – Agri-Focus – where we take a closer look at some of the key issues that directly impact on farmers, rural communities and the agri-sector.

In this first episode, Ciaran Fitzgerald, who is a food economist with over 30 years’ experience in the agri food sector and is a regular columnist at Agriland, joins Francess McDonnell to talk about a subject that is unavoidable in Ireland – politics and agriculture. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-farming-week/message

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

- Kerry Group milk suppliers take to the streets – ‘This is only the start of this campaign’ 

- Environment ministers adopt Nature Restoration Law

- Potential to create 230 new places for veterinary medicine annually

- Dairy exit scheme is ‘the beginning of the end for family farms’

- National herd falls by over 550,000 head in 20 years

Rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

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Aisling O'Brien & Breifne O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:

- New Beef Welfare Scheme to open in July

- The reality behind milk price and cost of production

- No significant improvement in water quality - nitrogen levels too high in 40% of Irish rivers

- Nature Restoration Law vote - Environment committee voting on rewetting postponed

- Average dairy farmer income over €150,000 in 2022

- Department advises ‘extreme caution’ around invasive moth

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

- Farmers battle drought conditions

- EU milk price correction ‘now passed’

- IFA presidential election kicks off

- 14,000t of beef imported into Ireland

- Supermarket price wars intensify

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

- Rewetting controversy continues in Dáil and on the streets

- Minister formally announces €43m genotyping programme

- Almost 130,000 farmers apply for BISS and other schemes

- Green TD calls for live exports to end

- Vet issues appeal after 8 calves killed by slurry fumes

- Bogs to be developed for recreation activities

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Francess McDonnell and Stella Meehan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:

- Farmers won’t be forced to rewet their land, says Minister Ryan

- More deaths involving tractors this week – a reminder about safety at this busy time

- Farmers warn below-cost selling ‘has to stop’

- EPA: Ammonia emissions up nearly 1% in 2021

- Additional income streams highlighted at agri-tourism conference

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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

Rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture and visit Agriland.ie for more.

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

Rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture and visit Agriland.ie for more.

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

Rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture and visit Agriland.ie for more.