Francess McDonnell & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:
 
-       ‘No stone will be left unturned’ dairy bull calf welfare under the spotlight
-       MEPs vote in favour of revised Nature Restoration Law
-       Eamon Ryan says farming must change
-       New Teagasc MACC aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
-       Kerry Group milk suppliers back on picket line
-       Beef Focus: 34 years farming from a wheelchair in Sligo
 
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Francess McDonnell & Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week include:

-       Battle to retain nitrates derogation – ICMSA says government wants family dairy farms ‘gone’

-       Moorepark Dairy Day - sustainability in the face of challenges

-       Cavan farmer ‘lucky to be alive’ after fall into slurry pit

-       ACRES advisors under ‘significant mental stress’

-       Crucial Nature Restoration Law vote next week

-       On the Record – Anna May McHugh, queen of Irish ploughing

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

- EU environment committee rejects Nature Restoration Law
- No show from rural government TDs at Dáil debate on cow cull
- 4,750 farmers to get satellite inspection notifications, says DAFM
- Wexford farmers assess cost of crop damage from hail
- IFA considers postal ballot for national elections

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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

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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

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