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Dempsey at Large: a bland consensus but still worthwhile
Matt Dempsey
The comments by former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan left me apprehensive.
11 September 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: some cattle in, mole ploughing in tillage
We have ended up housing the most forward cattle and will probably aim to finish them for the pre-Christmas market.
4 September 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: remarkable Irish successes
If Irish agriculture is allowed decline, these important regional employers and innovators will wither.
Home Farm: Will we have to house cattle this week?
I would expect to have the silage aftergrass growing vigorously at this stage, so that we could spread the cattle out across the place, but it’s too soon to let stock out on it yet.
4 September 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: The stresses of growth
In the critical housing and health areas, we are seeing money being invested for maximum market-based return regardless of the social or societal effects.
28 August 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: a tale of two enterprises
Never have we sown oilseed rape so early, but the expensive lesson of late sowing, followed by a wet autumn, has left a mark.
28 August 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: How much volatility as a farmer can you cope with?
Theoretically, what happens to US wheat prices should have very little effect on us but that’s not true as these are the prices which set the tone for the prices at which feedstuffs come into Ireland.
21 August 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Catching up over the weekend
We may also have to accept that we may run out of weather in the autumn and simply be prepared to leave some land until the land dries out in spring.
21 August 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Generational renewal
Governments can only do so much in insulating farming from the rest of the economy.
14 August 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: August - a critical month
We have learned a bitter lesson this year, when the crops of oilseed rape went in too late and got much too much rain for the young plants to deal with.
7 August 2024 Viewpoints
Michael Deely - a life well lived
Michael Deely lived through and experienced firsthand the major changes that have affected Irish agriculture over the last 50 years.
7 August 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Impartial measurement is important
As the Teagasc economists disarmingly put it, “costs stayed stubbornly high“.
31 July 2024 Viewpoints