SENIOR Teagasc researchers were the good guys in the past week of the Government’s “How not to Enact New Legislation” soap opera.

EXPERTS from all 25 EU member states are examining Irish proposals for a Nitrates Regulations derogation that will allow the most commercial dairy farmers to continue with their level of production, and enable farmers to continue to take in pig slurry.

THE country's biggest pig farmers have been given up to two years to find more landowners to take pig slurry on their land as fertiliser.