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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Frustrating battery issue takes shine off solar grant
Angus Woods: It’s vital to make the effort to wind down and spend time off the farm
Darragh McCullough: It pains me to kill thousands of fodder plants – but if I want my maze, there’s no way out of it
There’s a crisis at the heart of hope itself as the ‘tell it like it is’ merchants peddle their divisive pessimism
Henry Walsh: Excessive chemical fertiliser reduction is undermining our entire grass-based dairy system
Darragh McCullough: Why in an era of data, spin, and global finance, I often feel the finely honed skills of a trade are under-valued
What is the future for the beef sector and is there motivation to determine it?
Jim O’Brien: Is visiting a thing of the past and does anyone just drop in anymore?
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: It would help farmers to know more about the cuts of beef we produce
Darragh McCullough: Farmers should embrace the new property boom — it’s making them rich
Margaret Donnelly: Carbon farming should benefit the environment and farmers
Angus Woods: Are you sure you have the right grasses in your swards? Fertiliser price hikes have been a game-changer
There’s no blank spaces when you’re a long-distance father-of-three
Peter Hynes: Financial stress can literally kill farmers – our leaders need to act
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: The easiest farm grants to apply for – and the hardest
‘What furore over calf ramming really shows is disconnect between urban life and the source of our food’
Angus Woods: Dairy’s attitude towards other sectors is hampering its efforts to keep the derogation
Jim O’Brien: Men who do their fair share of housework remain stubbornly rare
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Let’s start a conversation about a new Land Commission
Darragh McCullough: My blinged-up ancient Massey looked the part – but a foul stench derailed my maiden tractor run
Angus Woods: Don’t vote for change if you don’t know what it might entail
Darragh McCullough: How we slashed the number of dairy bull calves we have to offload from 300 to 30
Jim O’Brien: I wouldn’t be the first to try to stop time’s inexorable progress...
Margaret Donnelly: It’s difficult to get elected on a farming ticket but farming needs its voice to be heard
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why so many farmers are bad bosses
John Downing: Are Greens in for a wipeout of post-bailout proportions?
Jim O’Brien: Why do we drive ourselves mad trying to impose order on nature in our gardens?
Darragh McCullough: My idea of camper-van bliss got flushed away pretty quickly
All farmers can learn lessons from organics – even if they have no intention of converting
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Six farm policies the next government should bring in
Jim O’Brien: We’ve created monsters of consumption full of despair, wonder and hope
Darragh McCullough: It didn’t matter whether you wanted to eat, drink, look or pee at the Chelsea Flower Show — it was torturous
Please stop the hot air about methane-reducing additives solving all our problems
Angus Woods: Be very careful who you vote for in the European elections
Jim O’Brien: Ireland’s history of economic emigration should make us a bit more sympathetic to the plight of today’s migrants
Angus Woods: Consider scaling back your farm enterprise – nothing is as important as your welfare
Darragh McCullough: If you don’t value your own time on the farm, you are undermining everyone else’s efforts
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Taking a much-needed break can be a great reminder of why we love the farming life
Joe Barry: Ash dieback scheme is as good as we could have expected
Ciaran Moran: Many farms are more reliant on subsidies today than they were 20 years ago — good or bad thing?
Darragh McCullough: Controlling the narrative? That’s up to us farmers – not a bunch of PR chaps looking to get rich
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why I won’t be buying a milk vending machine
Angus Woods: Multi-species swards have been a big hit for me, even before the €300/ha grant – so get your application in
Jim O’Brien: We’re obsessed with the rich and successful but what’s wrong with being middle of the road?
Ciaran Moran: Don’t believe the hype about an individual MEP changing the world — it won’t happen
Darragh McCullough: I was in a race to transplant a belt of 30ft trees to save my planned new shed
Jim O’Brien: Jousting bishops – and the distressing thought that the Irish climate might be the best the world can offer
Darragh McCullough: Some farmers are as bad as the worst leafy south Dublin NIMBYs for fighting against the common good
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Could Irish farmers make the most of climate change and start producing wine?
Jim O’Brien: Stardust tragedy taught us about the fleeting fragility of youth in 1980s Dublin
Darragh McCullough: Try these non-token ways to help our struggling tillage sector
Angus Woods: I’m a big fan of cover crops – but I regret selecting them as an ACRES option
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Public sector’s organic target is grand, but buying Irish would be better
Darragh McCullough: Farmers are paying the price for our leaders’ failure to heed warnings on climate change
Margaret Donnelly: Tillage sector needs a long-term strategy, not a quick fix knee-jerk reaction
Jim O’Brien: How getting my free travel card made me feel like War and Peace nobility
Angus Woods: Plan now to avoid repeating mistakes when the pressure is highest
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We are shooting ourselves in the foot by not supporting Irish tillage
Landowners must cut tenant farmers some slack at this difficult time
Jim O’Brien: A rousing tale of revolution, retribution, resilience and the healing power of music
Darragh McCullough: A few tweaks to our diet and Irish farmers could live to 100
Angus Woods: Putting a figure on cost of bad weather will help farmers push for financial supports
Darragh McCullough: Great to see farmers showing we’re a force to be reckoned with
Jim O’Brien: I’m rediscovering the joy of hobbies and local groups I had left behind
Margaret Donnelly: Plans need to be put in place to cope with extreme weather conditions
Angus Woods: Few professions view 40 as ‘young’, apart from farming and politics
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Failure to accept climate change is causing our fodder crisis this spring
Darragh McCullough: How do we make people feel safer in their own homes and farms?
Jim O’Brien: Humanity’s sense of optimism survived the Cold War, but will a hot planet kill it off?
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farmers are too easily fooled by social media quacks
Darragh McCullough: Can home-delivered ready meals work in rural Ireland?
Angus Woods: Times have changed – and farm orgs should be fighting for an exit/reduction package
Margaret Donnelly: EU simplification must go much further to ease the burden on farmers here
Jim O’Brien: From Ukraine to the state of your wobbly bits – nothing beats a chat with an old pal
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why scrubland owners should get back-pay now that EU has changed its tune
Darragh McCullough: I thought I was prepared for the Mother’s Day rush – boy, was I wrong
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Don’t touch our badgers – they keep our herd TB-free
Jim O’Brien: How we’re using the old battery from our electric car to run the house
Angus Woods: Ignore the moaners – BDGP has improved the suckler herd
Darragh McCullough: Red tape and costs make it hard to pasteurise your own milk, but selling another farmer’s supply has been a big hit
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Five tips to help calving go as smoothly as possible
Jim O’Brien: I’ll be voting ‘yes’ to wipe disgraceful misogynistic texts from a Constitution that was written in an Ireland that no longer exists
Margaret Donnelly: Make-up of the next Government will determine how much nature ‘restoration’ actually occurs
Angus Woods: Protests will achieve nothing unless they make very specific demands
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