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‘Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds,” J Robert Oppenheimer is said to have quoted from a Hindu text as he contemplated the atomic bomb he had been instrumental in developing.

Rewetting requirements, which were axed from the EU’s nature restoration law, could return following trilogue discussions, MEP Colm Markey has said.

In the last three years the focus of farm politics has shifted dramatically, from problems within the beef sector, to problems within the dairy sector. Emissions reductions, the size of the dairy herd and the nitrates derogation, have moved attention away from beef production and the changes that are quietly taking place in the beef sector.

Query: I have a right of way on to a public road and another farmer owns the property both sides of it. He refuses to cut his hedges and there isn’t enough traffic on the short lane to keep them back.

Walking through woodland is good for us — often called ‘forest bathing’, the physical and mental health-giving benefits it bestows are well known.

RTÉ Investigates: Dairy’s Dirty Secret has put calf welfare back into the spotlight. The programme shone a light on some unacceptable practices in marts, breaches of transport legislation on the continent, and the slaughter of calves.

There has always been a focus on water quality on the farm, which is in the catchment of the Begerin stream. Under the Water Framework Directive it is deemed as having moderate/at risk water quality.

Sometimes a story seems so strange that you can’t quite believe it’s real. This is how I felt when I heard that daffodils were the latest wonder-plant being fed to cows to reduce methane emissions.

Some €50 million in funding is to be provided to farmers to adopt measures on their farms to improve water quality.