25 April 2019

• AIB chief to meet farmers after protest over vulture fund sales
  Farmers protesting against loan sales at AIB's annual meeting scored a coup when they managed to get CEO Colin Hunt to agree to meet them.
• Storm Hannah: Met Éireann warns heavy rain and 'severe' gales to hit Ireland this weekend
  MET Éireann has warned of hail and thunder this evening as Ireland is set to be hit with 'Storm Hannah' this weekend.
• How to keep your flock thriving and healthy
  What a difference a year makes. The weather is ideal, soil temperatures are on the rise and grass is becoming plentiful.
• Mary Kinston: Blaming this year's calf problems on Jerseys is unfair
  This was the easiest spring we've ever put down on our farm.
• 'Back brave' and cancel loan sell-off, farmers urge AIB
  Farmers have urged AIB to "really back brave" and halt its decision to sell non-performing loans to vulture funds.
• Glanbia shares fall as investors revolt over Talbot pay hike
  Shares in Glanbia tumbled over 6pc yesterday amid disappointment at a trading update and as more than a fifth of shareholders voted to oppose a 22pc hike for managing director Siobhan Talbot under a new three-year multimillion-euro pay package.
• Bayer gets Monsanto profit boost but legal burden mounts
  German drug and farming supplies company Bayer posted a 45 percent gain in quarterly core earnings thanks to the acquisition of seed maker Monsanto, while the legal burden it took on with the deal mounted.
• Walmart creates Angus beef supply chain, cutting out meat processors
  Walmart Inc is taking control of the supply chain for Angus beef sold in some of its stores, cutting out meat processors as the company looks to offer higher quality products in an intensely competitive grocery industry.
• Judge tells farmer 'get rid of your ewes in 24 hours or 'ewer' going to jail'
  A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.
• Kerry's new forward price scheme for suppliers closes today
  The fifth Kerry Agribusiness Forward Price Scheme has opened and is now available to milk suppliers for online application from yesterday and will close today.