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1 week ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
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1 week ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
News that the EU is on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030 is positive, however, less positive is Ireland’s number. Agriculture escaped the worst grades in this most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report. Nevertheless, the EPA boss called out agriculture with a “very significant 16%” reduction up to 2030, significantly below the 25% sector target.
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1 week ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
We always seem to talk about succession as a challenge for the sector but I believe the people and the land ownership discussion is often misguided. If you look at the crowds of young people that attended the Carbery open day at Gurteen farm near Bandon last week, you’d know very quickly that there is no shortage of young people willing to invest time, energy and expertise in the food and farming sector.
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1 week ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
The top CAP and BISS payments made the headlines this week, but let us not forget that the majority of payments go to farmers in rural Ireland that will be hard set to break-even this year despite record output prices. It might seem ridiculous to say it – but the CAP payment is all that many farmers have left after a year of work. It is the sad fact of the matter.
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1 week ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
Australian farming is not long recovered from long-term drought, so much so it decimated herds and flocks for years. Now southern parts of Australia are once again suffering badly (pages 22-23). It highlights once again the impact weather can have on farmers and food production. Thankfully rain has arrived to most parts of Ireland over the last week and grass growth rates have recovered. In places where first-cut silage has been harvested, the regrowths are excellent.
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1 week ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Jack Kennedy
Forget moon landings and Mars missions — there’s a space race unfolding right now, and it’s all about something much closer to home: your internet connection. Amazon has officially entered the broadband-from-space game with the launch of Project Kuiper, a satellite internet network that’s heading into orbit to join the competition against SpaceX’s Starlink. But unlike past space races, this one isn’t about planting flags or exploring distant worlds.
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2 weeks ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
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2 weeks ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
The protests in Dublin and Brussels this week by IFA, ICOS and the European Agricultural organisations COPA COGECA serve to highlight the importance of EU funding to farming, food and rural development across Ireland and Europe. The protests have been sparked by increasing discussion at EU level that a change in the structure of the next CAP is on the way. Readers might correctly point out the next CAP is not going to kick in until post 2027.
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2 weeks ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
There was a time when all dairy co-ops agreed to open their books to independent auditors to allow them compile a ‘holistic’ milk price for milk suppliers. The core intention was to give milk processors a chance to include other investments such as quality and sustainability bonuses that all milk suppliers didn’t get. That exercise fell apart when some individual processors pulled out for reasons such as the non-inclusion of trading bonuses or liquid milk premiums etc.
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2 weeks ago | 
farmersjournal.ie | Jack Kennedy
A major new report which examines the global food and beverage sector was launched yesterday in University College Cork (UCC). The report, which was prepared by UCC, AIB, Goodbody, KPMG and A&L Goodbody includes data collected from a recent survey of food and beverage executives and from recent consumer trends data. Understandably, the global food and beverage sector faces intense uncertainty from tariff threats, weak consumer sentiment amid inflation and cost-of-living pressures.
