Glanbia has cut its milk price to 24c/l, with a 1c/l top-up for members of the co-op, and it has announced that it would pay €130/t for green barley. Many farmers feel those prices are too low, and Irish Farmers Journal editor Justin McCarthy sat down with dairy specialist Aidan Brennan, news correspondent Pat O’Toole and agribusiness editor Eoin Lowry to discuss how Glanbia is doing business at the moment.
As the the two main companies in the FBD group hold EGMs on 22 October to decide on the sale of the company's hotels and property portfolio, Justin McCarthy and Eoin Lowry discuss the changes planned at the insurer founded by Irish farmers.
On Tuesday, the National Dairy Council and Kerrygold held their annual Quality Milk Awards ceremony. Dairy editor Jack Kennedy was on the judging panel and he takes us back to the awards ceremony with online journalist Amy Fitzgibbon.
While the maize harvest is in full swing here, Paula Melvin talked to a German farmer who has a very different view of that crop. Where Heinrich Base comes from, maize, rather than grass, is the winter feed of choice for cattle.
The Irish Farmers Journal's Fovember campaign - or Movember for farmers - is coming up fast. After being the most successful fundraisers for this men’s health initiative last year, we are taking things up another level, as Peter Young and Aine Hennessy explain.
For more information, visit www.farmersjournal.ie/fovember