The two-month marathon of IFA election hustings concluded in Offaly on Tuesday night. Here are the closing arguments of the three presidential candidates: Joe Healy, Flor McCarthy and Henry Burns.
This weeks marks one year since the abolition of milk quotas. Two Irish dairy farmers reflect on the past 12 months from very different parts of the world: Philip Ruttle farms in Co Limerick and Olin Greenan in New Zealand.
China is among the factors in the current milk price slump. But what is happening inside that country’s dairy industry? The Irish Farmers Journal's Digital editor Thomas Hubert met Kevin She Baoqing, a Chinese dairy planner, at this month’s Nuffield contemporary scholars conference in Cavan.
On Tuesday, anti-eviction activists protested outside the offices of a law firm involved in the case of a repossessed farmer who committed suicide last week. Odile Evans was there and she spoke with New Land League spokesperson Jerry Beades.
TDs Willie Penrose and Michael Healy-Rae have advocated for a full minister to be in charge of rural affairs as talks continue to form a government. Anthony Jordan met them in Leinster House.
The European Parliament is the latest institution opposing the renewal of the license to sell glyphosate, the main ingredient in total herbicides such as Roundup. Thomas Hubert and tillage editor Andy Doyle have more details.
There is a detailed survey on the health of farming women in this week's Irish Country Living, and the good news is that they are much better at looking after their health than farming men. There are some areas of concern, though, as health correspondent Margaret Hawkins explained to Mary Phelan.