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Jim O’Brien: Live a better life by improving your relationship with death
Darragh McCullough: I’m told I can get €60/acre carbon credit for doing diddly squat other than the farming we’re already busting a gut at — is this too good to be true?
Angus Woods: Why I’m going to be spending up to 24 hours a day in a canoe across 715 gruelling kilometres in Canada next summer
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Do the anti-farming forces farmers are battling actually exist?
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We need funding to find the vital common ground between conservation and farming
Darragh McCullough: God help us if the thugs manage to scare all the immigrants away. We’ll be starving within a week
Bidding a gentle farewell to my dog Max was a haven of softness on a hard night
Red meat ban? Here’s why I have a beef with the experts
Angus Woods: A major beef event where they don’t serve beef – it kind of sums up our sector
Jim O’Brien: When I forget things, is it a portent of major problems – or is my memory bank just getting short of free space?
Vincent Roddy: Nature Restoration Law must not become our Highland Clearances
Why I’ve started going to the gym at 46 – and why I’ve had to park my ego at the door
Angus Woods: We need to keep evolving the suckler herd – and the new BDGP indices will help
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why failing in my dairy partnership might be the best thing I’ve ever done
Jim O’Brien: We once shared a common enemy with Israel. Now we relate more to Palestinians
Darragh McCullough: TB is the biggest farming scandal of my lifetime
Angus Woods: Why all livestock farmers should take a tour around their local factory
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farm lobby preaching to the converted while An Taisce get the children of Ireland on their side
Angus Woods: The next IFA president needs to go beyond local politics from day one
Darragh McCullough: Commodity prices have collapsed but part-timers farmers continue to bid €5,000 on a fancy crossbred heifer
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why I’m planning on exiting ACRES
John Downing: What next IFA election can tell us about the future landscape of Irish farming
Darragh McCullough: Hysteria about the new derogation rules does farmers a disservice
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: It’s hard to look your most glamorous when all your deadlines strike at once
Angus Woods: Why I fear for the future of per-hectare CAP payments
Ciaran Moran: Farmers have been hearing about CAP reform for years — today they will feel it
Jim O’Brien: I got a taste of living off the grid – and it was liberating
Darragh McCullough: A ‘ghost pumpkin’ almost turned our Halloween event into a nightmare
Angus Woods: Why it’s vital to elect an IFA president who can appeal to an audience beyond farmers
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Someone dumped sick horses on my land – how can they be my problem?
Jim O’Brien: A silver lining to climate change – it might just deflect humanity from the path to self-annihilation
Ciaran Moran: If a tractor safety test saved one life, would it not be worth it?
Darragh McCullough: Call me stingy but minimum-wage hikes will kill horticulture businesses like mine
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: ‘Gentleman foresters’ are buying up land – but they’re not a big threat to farmers
Jim O’Brien: A silver lining to climate change – it might just deflect humanity from the path to self-annihilation
Angus Woods: Budget was always going to be tough for farmers but we must keep lobbying
Margaret Donnelly: Farmers disappointed but not surprised at ‘non-event’ farming Budget
Darragh McCullough: I’ve discovered a new extreme sport – apple picking
Jim O’Brien: I’ve woken up and smelt the coffee of retirement... but it will have to wait
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Five tips for surviving farm inspections
Angus Woods: IFA’s old branch network is an outdated model – a major overhaul is needed
Darragh McCullough: From employer to accidental landlord to Halloween event organiser – I’m a glutton for punishment
Jim O’Brien: When the much-feared hitchhiker was a great source of company
Margaret Donnelly: Farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change, but try telling a sceptical public that
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why pre-nups are unfair on female farmers
Angus Woods: Why didn’t I sow multi-species swards years ago?
Angus Woods: Why it’s time to show blue cards the red card
Margaret Donnelly: Dairy farmers must take heed – the future of Derogation is far from certain
Darragh McCullough: We’ve a second chance at genetically modified crops – and we have to take it
Culture Night: Why do we expect artists to offer up their work for free?
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: There’s a lot riding on who we farmers vote for over the next couple of years
Angus Woods: Farm orgs need to wise up and work with the Minister or we’ll end up with no derogation at all
Margaret Donnelly: Farmers’ reception to Minister Charlie McConalogue at the Ploughing will be telling
Jim O’Brien: When you have the house to yourself, you need to contend with your ghosts
Fionnán Sheahan: Rural Ireland will be the big loser with fewer politicians
Pat McCormack: Our family farm members are entitled to look to us for a defence of their farms and income
Darragh McCullough: Dairy farmers need to comply with the 220kg N/ha limit – and convince the EU it shouldn’t get further reduced
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farm orgs are using the Government as the fall guy for their own failures
Darragh McCullough: Can I use my own milk in my coffee shop? Maybe – just go through 250 pages of regulations and fill in endless forms
Margaret Donnelly: Don’t just blame the EU – farmers need honest, clear communication when they face major changes
Angus Woods: Farming change can’t happen at the drop of a hat – we need time to alter our systems
Jim O’Brien: Labour got punished for betraying its principles and is now a shadow of a party – and we are all the poorer
Fiona O’Connell: With farming representatives like the IFA and the ICSA, who needs enemies?
John Connell: I don’t need a retreat to find inner peace, I just need my cows
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why farmers ought to eat local – at least for this month
Darragh McCullough: I’ve been bitten by the vintage tractor bug
Jim O’Brien: A litany of tragedy takes us further than the search for answers
Angus Woods: New political landscape will make it even harder for farmers’ voices to be heard
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Reaction to EPA meat tweet exposes farmer insecurity
Darragh McCullough: Drive for environmental sustainability has triggered farming’s midlife crisis
Jim O’Brien: September offers new beginnings and a chance to reshape your own history
Angus Woods: Delayed reaction to new cover-crop rules highlights how ineffective the farm orgs were when it mattered
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why rural Ireland will never let go of cash – or chequebooks
Jim O’Brien: Life choice, vocation or just a cultural thing?
Margaret Donnelly: Innovative solar solutions will stop the eyesore critique and secure a bright future
Darragh McCullough: Milk price may be down but I’m still expecting a good margin come year-end
Angus Woods: Joint advice at the Tullamore Show was a breath of fresh air for worried farmers
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Did we assume that we too could create an unstoppable farmers’ political behemoth with the Farmers’ Alliance?
Mike Brady: Five steps to feeling better about your farm
Jim O’Brien: Safety pins, baler twine and the mothering of invention
Darragh McCullough: Commentators like Fintan O'Toole and their lazy labelling of Irish farmers only reinforces polarising opinions
Angus Woods: Stop knocking the grid – it’s good for Irish farmers and it doesn’t need revising
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Agri-tourism could solve a lot of problems in rural Ireland – if the government helped us
Margaret Donnelly: Weather difficulties are set to continue but what can be done to help farmers?
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