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Full coverage: Agriculture

“We don’t ever set ourselves a limit”: Brothers plan to tackle global drug resistance from their Limerick farm

Nick Cotter has been in business with his brother Jack since he was 10. Having grown local firewood and organic lamb enterprises, they are now commercialising a new livestock health technology with worldwide potential – while still in college.

Thomas Hubert
31st Aug, 2022 - 10 min read

“You don’t govern in hope, hope is not a policy. It’s not quite an appalling vista but it’s certainly disturbing”

The government broke the internal deadlock on cuts needed from agriculture but in this podcast Thomas Hubert and Stephen Kinsella analyse the realities of what Ireland needs to do.

Dion Fanning
30th Jul, 2022 - 1 min read

A poor Climate Action Plan, a poorer public debate: Ministers need cool heads to tackle global warming

Having raised expectations with a sugar-coated Climate Action Plan last year, Eamon Ryan and Charlie McConalogue are faced with the hard reality of carbon budgeting figures. It could be make-or-break time for the coalition.

Thomas Hubert
20th Jul, 2022 - 7 min read

The tree, the fruits and the milk: Judge confirms Kerry farmers’ tax victory

A six-year battle between Kerry Co-op milk suppliers and Revenue has come to an end in the High Court. The right to subscribe to “patronage shares”, although a receipt of regular trade, will not inflate the farmers’ income tax bills.

Thomas Hubert
5th Jul, 2022 - 5 min read

The Belview cheese factory took three years to get planning. Varadkar promises change within months

Politicians turning the sod on Glanbia Co-op and Royal A-Ware’s new plant yesterday were upbeat about the prospects for higher-value dairy processing and the removal of the legal barriers that delayed the project until this year.

Thomas Hubert
23rd Jun, 2022 - 7 min read

Sinead O’Sullivan: The structure of Irish farmland must evolve out of the middle ages

While many argue that we should not allow new forms of land ownership to disrupt the farm, farms are already in the process of disrupting themselves. There is a young generation of farmers that are in fact seeking to rent instead of buy land to improve their return on capital.

Sinead O'Sullivan
19th May, 2022 - 6 min read

Do what rich people do – Part 6: How farmland can inflation-proof your portfolio

What do JP McManus, John Magnier, Bill Gates and the British Royal family all have in common? Apart from being billionaires, they are all large landowners, quietly going under the radar to acquire massive amounts of global farmland.

Sinead O'Sullivan
5th Apr, 2022 - 8 min read

Money growing on trees? How a Finnish investment firm became one of the largest landowners in Ireland

Dasos Capital, with strong backing from the State and the European Investment Bank, has quietly assembled the country’s second-largest private forestry portfolio. How did it do it? And, how much is the portfolio worth?

Thomas Hubert
1st Mar, 2022 - 10 min read

From plant-based protein to pandemic probiotics: What’s hot and what’s not for Irish agri-food in 2022

Technological change in agriculture and food may have to adapt to shifting consumer priorities after Covid-19, but the pace of innovation remains unabated. Here is a look at six big ideas – and one possible spoiler.

Aidan Connolly
7th Feb, 2022 - 16 min read

Milking Irish farmers for €30m: How a vulture fund built a new tax structure to house agricultural loans

After changing hands twice, the debt of farmers who had borrowed from ACC ended up in a dual structure set up by CarVal under new rules governing Section 110 companies. How successful has it been in reducing the vulture fund’s Revenue bills?

Thomas Hubert
26th Jan, 2022 - 4 min read
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