The Farming Week: Fodder Shortage Concerns, Silage costing €50/bale, BEEF2024 Open Day

June 27, 2024 4:51 pm

Charles O’Donnell, Aisling O’Brien, Louise Hickey and Breifne O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

  • Concerns over fodder stocks;
  • The cost of making bales of silage;
  • The main talking points from BEEF2024 open day;
  • DAFM chief inspector on fertiliser database and derogation;
  • Almost three quarters of work-related deaths are in agriculture;
  • Half of farmers do not know how to contact mental health clinics;
  • Over 2,700kg of illegally imported meat seized at airports in 2023.

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