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After the Nitrates deal, Irish farmers face another battle: Mercosur
From losing money to doubling income: Teagasc details 2025’s cattle trade revolution
Want to stop billionaires buying farmland? Fix the inheritance tax system
Oat production has dropped 97pc since the Famine – we can’t talk food security while tillage takes a back seat

Fionnán Sheahan: Naivety of the glorified cheque-writers is having a bad impact on consumers
Why UK inheritance tax shows Irish farmers need to stay vigilant
Darragh McCullough: Bluetongue, bird flu, TB – have we become numb to livestock crises?
My electricity bill would be €1,000 a year cheaper if I was farming in France
Why now is the best time in decades for new entrants to get into dairy farming
Looking beyond the stars – what I focus on when I’m choosing AI sires
Darragh McCullough: My farm needs migrants, but the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope
People say I’m not a ‘real dairy farmer’ – here’s why they are wrong
Ciaran Moran: The Government is closer to a nitrates derogation extension, but what does it mean for farmers?
The next generation is eager to farm — but they can’t access land

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After the Nitrates deal, Irish farmers face another battle: Mercosur

From losing money to doubling income: Teagasc details 2025’s cattle trade revolution

Want to stop billionaires buying farmland? Fix the inheritance tax system

Oat production has dropped 97pc since the Famine – we can’t talk food security while tillage takes a back seat

Fionnán Sheahan: Naivety of the glorified cheque-writers is having a bad impact on consumers

Why UK inheritance tax shows Irish farmers need to stay vigilant

Darragh McCullough: Bluetongue, bird flu, TB – have we become numb to livestock crises?

My electricity bill would be €1,000 a year cheaper if I was farming in France

Why now is the best time in decades for new entrants to get into dairy farming

Looking beyond the stars – what I focus on when I’m choosing AI sires

Darragh McCullough: My farm needs migrants, but the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope

People say I’m not a ‘real dairy farmer’ – here’s why they are wrong

Ciaran Moran: The Government is closer to a nitrates derogation extension, but what does it mean for farmers?

The next generation is eager to farm — but they can’t access land

Darragh McCullough: Could Irish grain be the next boom?

Rural Ireland’s patience with the EU is wearing thin – a backlash is coming

Hannah Quinn Mulligan: A Christmas goose and the abattoir shortage no one will fix

Darragh McCullough: Cappuccinos won’t make you rich, but coloured weanlings might

Why I’m thinking of putting my octogenarian granny on the payroll

The super-wealthy are buying up land. We need to make sure genuine farmers have a chance to compete

Urban men can cook and get paternity leave, farming needs to keep up

Darragh McCullough: Life on high alert – the daily anxiety of poultry farmers amid bird-flu threats

Darragh McCullough: Pumpkin growers have turned their fields into adrenaline parks because there’s more money in fear and Instagram than beef or barley

Presidential procession shows IFA has lost power to sway rural voters

Eddie Punch: How Irish dairy and meat can and must win over Gen Z – one TikTok at a time

Helmets save lives – so why won’t Irish farmers wear them?

Richard Moeran: The era of cheap food is over – and it’s population growth, not farmers, that ended it

There’s nothing wrong with wanting more – big shots’ big ambition lifts all of us, so stop the begrudgery

Darragh McCullough: Farmers must do more to stop water pollution than just hoping other sectors can be blamed

Eddie Punch: Vegan movement is still a real threat to livestock farmers – so we need to understand how they are thinking

How should I spend my surplus cash? A Maria Steen handbag or a new cow? Or renewable energy?

Darragh McCullough: I survived my first two days going solo with the baby – just about

Trivial focus on keepie-uppies and ice-cream is undermining public’s faith in the democratic process

My Budget takeaway? This one’s hard to digest as McDonald’s catch a break but rural pensioners are hit hard

Darragh McCullough: How not to tow a trailer – a lifetime of hard-learned lessons

Why the new vet prescription database misses the mark

Irish farming drives billions of euros’ worth of innovation – but neither sector is getting enough help from the EU

Darragh McCullough: Storms are playing havoc with my farm – and things are only going to get worse

Adrian Weckler: From doom and gloom to boom – Why tide may be turning for Intel

Had a good year? Here’s how you can reinvest profits in your farm to make your job easier and safer

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: What I’ve learned hosting farm walks and why I’m not worried about farmers ‘stealing’ my ideas

Darragh McCullough: From ChatGPT to FarmDroid, the robots aren’t coming – they’re already here

Have Ireland’s co-ops become too corporate?

How the succession crisis could actually end up improving Irish farming

Eddie Punch: Why farming is still an attractive career choice for young people

Darragh McCullough: Forget selling flowers - the real money’s in TikTok backdrops

3c/l is a drop too far: Why Dairygold’s drastic cut has left farmers furious

A farmer’s dilemma: coffee makes the most money in our shop but I prefer working with animals

Darragh McCullough: If dairy earnings of €150k a year can’t get young people excited, farming has a big problem

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why small beef farmers’ ‘victory’ over the factories this year will be short-lived

Climate targets will keep forcing up the cost of food – consumers must be told

‘We should have found a way for families to be with dying loved ones during Covid pandemic,’ says Heather Humphreys

Why IP protection for Irish genetics will benefit farmers

Eddie Punch: EU’s hypocrisy on beef, trade and climate – why Mercosur is a raw deal for Irish farmers

Darragh McCullough: Cow 6137 was more than just a number – in the end, she became the centrepiece of my new food venture

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Should we get back into sucklers? I’m weighing up the pros and cons

Why are farmers denied a home while fields become housing estates?

Dairy farming at a crossroads: Tackling the crisis without losing the farmer

Darragh McCullough: How tight environmental regulations are fuelling the dairy boom

John Heney: Eurocrats must tell us exactly what their plans are for the future of farming

Eamon O’Connell: Why vaccines alone won’t stop pneumonia in your weanlings

Eddie Punch: We need our MEPs to stand up for us and fight hard to stop Mercosur

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: People moan about the price of milk but they happily pay twice as much for a litre of water

Darragh McCullough: From losing €600 a week to outgrowing the cart – the coffee gamble that paid off

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Time farmers got a slice of the agri-tourism pie

Eddie Punch: GAEC 2 is another example of EU and State bureaucrats eroding the right to property ownership

Darragh McCullough: Who knew farming could be the subject of binge-worthy content on YouTube?

Eamon O’Connell: If you’re planning for autumn calving, make sure you’re ahead of the game

Eddie Punch: There’s a lack of young farmers but an ‘age war’ won’t help

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Boomers have broken the system for the next generation of farmers

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: How fake news fried my sausage dream

Eamon O’Connell: Showcasing the best of Rural Ireland

Why are the dice always loaded against small-scale farmers trying to direct-sell their own produce?

Darragh McCullough: Feeling flush this year? Here’s how you might splash your extra cash

Eddie Punch: Officials must listen to farmers – and stop telling us how to handle our cattle

Too many of us are unfairly missing out on the Forgotten Young Farmers scheme

Box-ticking Bord Bia are losing the faith of farmers

Eddie Punch: Why a further fall in cattle numbers would be a disaster for Rural Ireland

Darragh McCullough: The listeriosis outbreak has really put Irish food production under the microscope

Eddie Punch: Vegan movement is still a real threat to livestock farmers – so we need to understand how they are thinking

Darragh McCullough: Storms are playing havoc with my farm – and things are only going to get worse

CAP repelled innovation so why would a new generation be excited to farm?