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World Agrifood Innovation Forum a big deal in China
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Feeding the world is clearly an area where science and development can build bridges.
World Agrifood Innovation Forum a big deal in China
Dempsey at Large: Baileys remains one of the most successful drinks in the world
4 December 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Baileys remains one of the most successful drinks in the world
The use of Irish cream was mandatory from the beginning, and that policy still continues.
Home farm: Machinery safeguards
4 December 2024 Viewpoints
Home farm: Machinery safeguards
A lesson learned - cheap bolt that saved us from real far more expensive trouble.
Editorial: ‘stocking rate’ not key issue for dairy farms
This stocking rate row is core to why the handbrake is pulled on farm investment here in Ireland.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Policy pointing in the wrong direction
The problem is the attribution of emissions in accordance with the system of the UN Convention, which allocates emissions on a territorial basis, by production.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: The forestry conundrum
Part of farmers reluctance to consider the forestry route has been that the demand for land is now coming from all kinds of new areas.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Quality Assurance inspection time
I had looked at getting vermin-proof roller doors but the cost was significant, the gain marginal and the inconvenience and the exposure to possible breakage through machinery damage was real.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: winter beef price positivity
Beef prices - Teagasc analysis on winter finishing costs suggests they need every penny of it.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Mercosur - the Italian king-maker deal?
After more than 20 years of negotiations, the European Union and Mercosur are still trying to finalise a major trade agreement.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: political promises broken on land tax
The fact that over 6,000 farmers turned up to from all over Northern Ireland on Monday night answers a lot.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: options for supplementing cattle rations
If we cannot get good by-products at a competitive price, then we will unwillingly replace them with imported product which does nobody any good.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: pressure on horticulture
There are sectors where producer groups would have a logical role in both price and conditions of supply negotiations with supermarket customers.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints