The Farming Week

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Controversy over Tirlán's US butter deal;
• Fears over drought and shrinking milk cheques;
• Contractors under pressure from green diesel costs;
• Concerns over client accounts at some marts;
• Teagasc sees income boost for 2025.

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The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Total final payments under fuel support scheme to be €27 million;
• All applicants for the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) 2026 accepted;
• Number of liquid milk producers continues to decline;
• Farming accounts for almost 40% of all workplace fatalities over the past decade;
• Wexford hay auction sees 900 bales sell for average of €22/bale.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• SIM concerns and straw bale prices
• Farm orgs concerned over animal destruction videos;
• Nitrates Directive review published;
• Beef prices remaining positive this week;
• Cork cow becomes Ireland's highest classified.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Average farm incomes up across the board in 2025;
• Will EU livestock and protein strategies deliver for farmers?
• Defining 'active farmer' important to CAP deal;
• Proposal to digitise cattle passports;
• New mobile machine solving slurry-related issues.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team brings you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• How have beef prices fared this week?
• Fuel excise cuts extended;
• Irish EU presidency begins as CAP talks enter key period;
• Farmer Forum holds first meeting;
• New rural housing guidelines.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Beef prices on the rise as weekly cattle supply dips;
• How much were the board of Bord Bia paid in 2025?
• Farmer gets nitrates non-compliance notice 3 years after inspection;
• €1.7m project to use advanced slurry management technologies;
• Invasive species among main causes of biodiversity loss.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Bord Bia governance review endorses chair Larry Murrin;
• EU unveils €500m fertiliser support package;
• Beef price steadies after 5 weeks of 10c/kg declines;
• Govt to use EU presidency role to boost CAP funding;
• 'Little overall improvement' in water quality in 2025 – EPA.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Over 32,000 farmers apply for fuel support scheme;
• Pressure on beef prices continues;
• Bord Bia board to meet to discuss governance review;
• 43% of farms fail local authority water quality inspections;
• Greenway projects costing €2m/km on average.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Tax and fuel payments;
• Diesel vehicle scrappage scheme;
• Irish farming and the EU's green future;
• More trouble ahead for beef farmers?
• Ireland in the dock over peat cutting.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

The Agriland team bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture, which this week includes:

• Bluetongue case in Tipperary;
• Michael Kelly for trial for murder of farmer;
• Victor Boyhan on succession in Seanad;
• Fuel subsidy scheme extended and €26 million savings for DAFM being sought;
• Bloom starts.

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.