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Charles O'Donnell, Aisling O'Brien and Francess McDonnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * €510m in BISS advance payments
 * Retailers drop own-label milk prices
 * 2025 cattle supply 120,000 head below last year
 * TB programme spend hit €79.4m by end of Q3
 * Nitrate levels decrease in 39% of river sites but 'too high' in 44% - EPA
 * Rockwell Farm hits the market with €21m guide price
 * Fota Wildlife Park closed until further notice as bird flu confirmed
 * 30,000 pumpkins for picking on east Cork farm

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€510m BISS Payments | TB spend hits €79m| Rockwell Farm

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Charles O'Donnell and Stella Meehan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * Budget 2026;
 * Biogas plant on Galway dairy farm;
 * Spiritans to sell Rockwell Farm;
 * Bird Flu in Tyrone;
 * EU regulation on Mercosur safeguards officially proposed.

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Budget 2026 | Bird Flu in NI | Mercosur Safeguards

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Charles O'Donnel and Kathleen O'Sullivan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * Possible boycott of weanling sales;
 * Storm Amy to hit country;
 * EU trade chief visits Ireland;
 * Aurivo and Dale Farm '"future trading relationship";
 * Urgent calls for tillage sector support in Budget 2026;
 * Tirlán pays down €250 million bond.

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Weanling Exporters | Storm Amy | Tillage Sector Crisis

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Charles O'Donnell, Aisling O'Brien and Hugh Harney bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * EBI changes revealed;
 * Dairygold to meet suppliers over milk price cut;
 * EU Commissioner to visit Ireland to view water quality efforts;
 * Bill aims to address trespassing on farms;
 * Bird flu confirmed at Cork wildfowl sanctuary;
 * All-Ireland Hedge Laying Championships return.

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EBI Changes | Dairygold Concerns | Farm Trespassing

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In this special live edition of The Farming Week, from the Agriland stand in Screggan, Co Offaly, we look back on three action-packed days at the National Ploughing Championships 2025. 

All the news from Ploughing 2025

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Charles O'Donnell, Aisling O'Brien and Hugh Harney bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * New TB action plan unveiled
 * Funding for new TB measures yet to be decided
 * Dairy sector faces 200,000-cow cut if derogation lost
 * TAMS reference costs revised
 * FBD Young Farmer of the Year
 * Countdown to Ploughing

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New TB action plan | TAMS costs | Young Farmer of the Year

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

 * TAMS reference costs updated;
 * EU Commission pushes to ratify Mercosur deal;
 * Beef and lamb trade updates;
 * Ornua PPI and GDT fall;
 * Flexibility sought on unprotected urea deadline;
 * Farm Safety Community Champion Programme.

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Mercosur Deal | TAMS Costs | Unprotected Urea

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

 * Warning of €555m annual fall in milk cheques without derogation;
 * NDC VAT dispute results in annual loss of €3.05m;
 * FCI warns against introduction of tractor driving test;
 * Further sightings of Asian hornet in Ireland;
 * ACRES scorecard deadline nears;
 * Hedge cutting season set to start;
 * Ploughing preparation in 'full swing' in Offaly

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Tractor Driving Tests | Ploughing 2025 Launch | ACRES scorecard deadline

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Charles O'Donnell, Kathleen O'Sullivan and Hugh Harney bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

 * Highlights from Virginia Show;
 * Latest milk prices and dairy markets;
 * Presidential election;
 * New INHFA president confirmed;
 * Fragmented farms could face nitrogen cut;
 * No link between milk processing and Cork fish kill;
 * Building Focus on Wexford calf shed;
 * Biggest Holsteins in Ireland?

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Virigina Show | Presidential Election | Milk Price Round-up

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

 * Beef Welfare Scheme opens;
 * Tullamore Show review;
 * ACRES scorecard deadline nears;
 * Over 1,200 apply for Forgotten Farmers scheme;
 * Dawn Meats seeks majority share of NZ's largest lamb processor;
 * Glanbia delivers "resilient" half year performance;
 * Asian hornet found in Cork;
 * Rose of Tralee hopefuls on farming

Don’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

Beef Scheme | Dawn Meats Deal | Asian Hornet

A week is a long time in farming, not just in politics, but you can keep up-to-date with all the latest news and stories from Irish agriculture with Agriland's latest podcast, The Farming Week. With new episodes every Friday, presenter Aisling O'Brien is joined each week by Agriland journalists with their top stories from The Farming Week.

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