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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: With cattle prices through the roof I’m not sure I can afford to buy beef for the farm shop
Sarah Carey: The future of Irish farming is in our hands, but we must do something now to ensure it survives
Darragh McCullough: Five years on – what I wish I had known when I first installed my solar panels
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We saved thousands on farm bills – here are six ways you can take back control of your finances

Angus Woods: Why we need more Irish beef products on supermarket shelves
Darragh McCullough: Why farming doesn’t have to mean being stuck in a tractor or a milking parlour
Angus Woods: Culling badgers won’t solve bovine TB – we need to address the movement of cattle in and out of farms
Darragh McCullough: I’m dubious about the merits of going organic for full-time producers
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: How fake news fried my sausage dream
Adrian Weckler: Honest debate about drones must go a lot further than whinging about noise
Darragh McCullough: My flower show debut went from a Bloomin’ disaster to coming up roses
Angus Woods: Climate change is already making life harder on our farms – we can’t pretend it isn’t happening
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We need to cap subsidies for older farmers to give next generation a chance
It’s like a tractor for your brain – why AI is the smartest farmhand you’ll ever hire

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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: With cattle prices through the roof I’m not sure I can afford to buy beef for the farm shop

Sarah Carey: The future of Irish farming is in our hands, but we must do something now to ensure it survives

Darragh McCullough: Five years on – what I wish I had known when I first installed my solar panels

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We saved thousands on farm bills – here are six ways you can take back control of your finances

Angus Woods: Why we need more Irish beef products on supermarket shelves

Darragh McCullough: Why farming doesn’t have to mean being stuck in a tractor or a milking parlour

Angus Woods: Culling badgers won’t solve bovine TB – we need to address the movement of cattle in and out of farms

Darragh McCullough: I’m dubious about the merits of going organic for full-time producers

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: How fake news fried my sausage dream

Adrian Weckler: Honest debate about drones must go a lot further than whinging about noise

Darragh McCullough: My flower show debut went from a Bloomin’ disaster to coming up roses

Angus Woods: Climate change is already making life harder on our farms – we can’t pretend it isn’t happening

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: We need to cap subsidies for older farmers to give next generation a chance

It’s like a tractor for your brain – why AI is the smartest farmhand you’ll ever hire

Angus Woods: Instead of complaining about factories and big retailers – buy shares in them

Darragh McCullough: Why the TB crisis requires decisive action

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why organics needs a Denis Brosnan to take it to the next level

Darragh McCullough: We can’t feed cows with sunshine – time is running out for rain

Angus Woods: Why do we always seem caught off-guard by CAP reform?

Does the EU care about Ireland’s nitrates derogation?

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why are farmers and small producers the last to get paid?

Darragh McCullough: It’s hard not to get excited – this could be farming’s best ever year

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Tirlán’s slapped wrist highlights our deluded attitude to water quality

Angus Woods: How to make the most of the sky-high beef and lamb prices

Is this the beginning of the end for organic farming?

Darragh McCullough: Why I spent big money on a new tractor – and I don’t regret it

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Irish farmers can’t fight Mercosur deal unless we stop our soy bean hypocrisy

Angus Woods: Why I won’t ramp up production on my farm – despite the rising prices and demand

Angus Woods: Like farming, our health service needs a long-term vision for an ageing population

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why I spent over €30,000 in renewable energy and battery storage instead of getting a TAMS grant

Darragh McCullough: Why the shrinking national herd isn’t the crisis some think it is

Darragh McCullough: IP rights on Irish cattle genetics raises some uncomfortable scenarios, but the alternative could be much worse

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farmers will be hit hard by corporate takeover of vets unless action is taken

Darragh McCullough: Whisper it, but maybe we have become the Irish equivalent of Clarkson’s Diddly Squat

Hannah Quinn Mulligan: The most important men in my life took pity on my plight and I now have a mobile milking machine

Angus Woods: Be smart with the extra money you earn in these good times – because they won’t last

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: I’ve lost money by selling direct during the beef boom – but here’s why I have no regrets

Angus Woods: My solar panels have been a huge success – why didn’t I install them years ago?

Darragh McCullough: Can Irish dairy ride out Trump’s tariffs?

Darragh McCullough: Can Irish dairy ride out Trump’s tariffs?

Armed with a knife at a gunfight: How red tape is holding back farming

Angus Woods: What to look for when buying a bull – and why I opted for Aubrac

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: As a farmer, I can’t support Ireland’s free school meals scheme

Angus Woods: Why farmers shouldn’t crow too loudly about their role in improving water quality

Darragh McCullough: The arrival of baby Grace has changed how I think about farming forever

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: I don’t think any farmer truly forgets the trauma of a bad calving experience

How to make your own yoghurt – it’s a lot easier than you might think

Angus Woods: Why we need to look at our sheep production model, and the type of ewes we use

Darragh McCullough: When does a routine disagreement turn into workplace bullying? Why farmer- employers can’t afford to take HR lightly

Department need to get their act together if they want more farmers to sign up for eco schemes

Darragh McCullough: I made a massive mistake spending three days and €3,000 digging up my farm in search of a leaky pipe

Angus Woods: Why farmers are no longer under financial pressure to sign up for eco schemes

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why conventional dairy farmers producers don’t trust the organic companies

Why beef prices won’t be coming down any time soon

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: I’m a committed feminist but I hate the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ – here’s why

Jim O’Brien: This is my last column – I will miss you, dear readers

Darragh MCullough: Why the ICBF Eurostars are losing the war of words – and why they are here to stay anyway

Angus Woods: Trump’s tariffs could hit farming hardest – so farm orgs need to put on a united front

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: I Don’t Blame ICBF— I Blame Breed Societies. Who Fought for Suckler Farmers? Nobody.

Jim O’Brien: Doomscrolling is bringing me down but humanity has always bounced back from dark times

Angus Woods: How can we expect farmers to increase their tillage output when there is no certainty around supports?

10 schemes I tried on my farm – from TAMS to Leader. Were they worth the effort?

Pat McCormack: These changes need to be made to fight TB or we’ll continue to lose hundreds of millions of euro

Darragh McCullough: Why I make no apologies about holding the Valentine’s Johnny-come-latelys over a barrel

Jim O’Brien: Valentine’s Day is a nightmare when you have as many mistresses as I do

The 1960s had dating classes for farmers – do we need them again?

Angus Woods: Why breed societies’ refusal to publish genomic evaluations is a backwards step for the industry

Seven steps to make farming great again

Angus Woods: Take advantage of rise in lamb prices and seize the opportunity to improve the flock

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Land is too expensive to buy – that’s why small farmers should have their own grant scheme

Darragh McCullough: Getting to 500 cows was a goal of our dairy partnership – here’s my 10 lessons from a 10-year journey

Jim O’Brien: There’s no spin with Donald Trump – everything he says is really as awful as it sounds

Why should Commissioner Hansen’s ‘man on the street’ get cheap food when farmers are struggling to earn a basic wage?

Darragh McCullough: New slurry rules push farmers to adapt – but at what cost?

Jim O’Brien: How Storm Éowyn turned back time a century or so to the days before the comforts we take for granted

Angus Woods: How do you reduce the average age of farmers when it’s seen by some as the ideal retirement occupation?

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Consumers need to cop-on a bit – and stop being taken in by empty buzzwords

Angus Woods: Why this not the time for farmers to ramp up production – even though global food demand is rising

​Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: It’s time to stop talking about organics like it’s the hippie neighbour

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Land is too expensive to buy – that’s why small farmers should have their own grant scheme

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: It’s time to stop talking about organics like it’s the hippie neighbour