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Diageo Baileys Champion Dairy Cow is back
Holstein Friesian breeders across Ireland are invited to prepare for the return of the Diageo Baileys Champion Dairy Cow competition at this year’s Virginia Show on 24 August, 2022. Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, launched the long-standing competition at Diageo Baileys in the northwest of Dublin in July. Entrants will be competing for a share of a €10,000 prize pot. The…
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Grain prices update – 20 May, 2022
Prices for new crop grain jumped on Monday 16 May, 2022, with news of potential export restrictions from India. Paris wheat prices for Sep 2022 closed at EUR 438/t on Monday, but dropped back to EUR 418.50 last Friday, 20 May. Contributors include less fear around possible Indian restrictions, a substantial Russian crop forecast, and rain expected in Northern France. Meanwhile, Glanbia offered EUR 13 more for green barley at…
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Fixed Milk Price Support scheme welcomed by ICMSA 
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) has welcomed Glanbia’s announcement of a Fixed Milk Price Support (FMPS) scheme. This aims to assist suppliers who entered large supplies of milk into fixed price schemes at a rate of payment considerably lower than recent monthly base prices.   ICMSA president, Pat McCormack says “there is growing and unprecedented pressure on dairy farmers who locked into these contracts in the last number…