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Debt levels up at farm service providers
Jack Kennedy
Small businesses must stand up for themselves and complete cash flows.
Debt levels up at farm service providers
Home Farm: BISS, oilseed rape, crop emergence, beef drops.
15 May 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: BISS, oilseed rape, crop emergence, beef drops.
The rapid increase in grain prices internationally over the last week or so, has lifted the expectations for this year's harvest, but there is a long way to go yet.
Dempsey at Large: The co-op and the PLC were not always easy bedfellows
15 May 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: The co-op and the PLC were not always easy bedfellows
Jim Bergin and incoming Seán Molloy shared the platform, and both stressed the new importance of security of supply, when they were talking with customers.
Gerry Boyle: looking back at two decades of rainfall and crop yields
The relationship between yield fluctuations and weather is complex and dependent on location, soil conditions, season, crop type and temperature - Prof Gerry Boyle.
15 May 2024 Viewpoints
50,000 football fans fly in for Aviva fixture
Summer arrives on cue for airports and Dublin does not have spare parking stands for a once-off influx.
15 May 2024 Viewpoints
Irish Farmers Journal / KPMG report on food security
Irish food producers are moving into an era where supermarkets are far more conscious of food security.
15 May 2024 Viewpoints
Time for candidates to work for their farmer constituents
At the very mention of water quality, anger levels rose in the western farmers and the very same happened in Kilkenny.
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: watching the winter barley
I have had one diagnosis of rhynchosporium on the winter barley, brought on I presume because of a delay in applying a protective spray with the continuous wet weather.
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Tirlán's role in Glanbia plc
Does it matter that over 30% of Glanbia's shareholders formally voted against the company’s remuneration policies?
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
New Zealand farmers fighting back and seeking support
New Zealand farmers are keen to join in an international effort to bring sound current science and basic common sense back into the debate, writes the Methane Science Accord
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
Chinese farmers dump milk amid financial losses
Culling cows was a first and easy step, but the price has bottomed out for culled cows and for many farms that are highly leveraged, having invested at the peak, the losses are significant.
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
Colm McCarthy: can Ireland become a large-scale exporter of electricity?
Across the Mediterranean, north African countries are eyeing up export opportunities for solar, as have locations in the Middle East.
8 May 2024 Viewpoints