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Editorial: building on nitrates success
Jack Kennedy
We need to fix soil fertility, because this allows better use of all nutrients on farms.
Editorial: building on nitrates success
Editorial: post-storm help required
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: post-storm help required
With the ash dieback scheme, windblown timber and replanting, we have a huge amount of work ahead.
Editorial: beef price warning
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: beef price warning
Many beef feedlot finishers are on contract and many of these are paying relatively big money around the rings for forward store cattle, in the knowledge that they will have a guaranteed margin.
Editorial: lamb price decline
Young lambs are also benefiting from getting outside to grass and settled, before tougher weather arrives.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: past mistakes haunting Department initiatives
Farmers have lost confidence in the officials before the game has started.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: TB developments
TB: if one in five herds have reactors, it shows the scale of the problem.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: malting is the future
Nothing beats regular communication and key messages well in advance of field work.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: milk solids' importance
Co-op directors should lead from the front on this, when setting and announcing milk price.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: invest now in farming rather than future fines
We do need to protect carbon in soils and grow the volume of carbon that we protect.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: hill sheep breeding plans
We are hearing increased concerns from hill sheep farmers about discussions on rewetting plans taking place behind closed doors.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: malting industry debate
The malting premium over feed is one of the bright lights for tillage farmers in terms of possibilities to improve margins. It always has been.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: fast-track planning must get green light
We need something very quickly on the nutrient storage side of the house for farmers.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints