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Values for farmland have risen steadily over the last three years and based on this year’s results, the average per acre value for top quality land is now in the region of €15,000 per acre, although there have been sharp spikes this year for certain land sales.

Longford Slashers 1-11 Dromard 1-09

Longford 0-16 Wexford 2-15 (AET)

Louth 1-14 Longford 1-8

Wexford 2-8 Longford 1-10

Meath 1-9 Longford 1-7

The direction of farming will change in the coming years, says Michael Brady

In a time of flux, the flight back to the land is marked.

On Friday, Oct 19, thousands of farmers received the first tranche of their single farm payment — aptly, that night there was a ‘your farm, your business’ seminar in Carrigaline, Co Cork.

Dairy farmers are more likely than those in beef, pork, and tillage to answer Ireland’s call for agri-food expansion, Cork-based agri-business consultant Michael Brady has said.

It’s time for farmers to get up to date with legal and financial matters.

A survey of 275 farming clients of agricultural consultants indicates dairy and beef output expansion plans are in line with Food Harvest 2020 ambitions. The nationwide survey was conducted in recent months on behalf of Ulster Bank.

Ireland’s dairy expansion goals would be hugely boosted if more co-ops adopted the active farmer-owned shareholding model used by Carbery, according to an agri-business consultant.

Cavan retained their Ulster U21 football championship title with a battling display at Brewster Park last night.

Cavan 1-10 Tyrone 0-10

Cavan footballer Seanie Johnston has welcomed the inclusion of 10 of the U-21 squad in the Breffni County's senior set-up for this summer's Championship campaign.

CAVAN manager Terry Hyland believes his team’s remarkable Cadbury’s All-Ireland U21 FC campaign “deserves” to be rewarded with a maiden title.

THE number of Teagasc advisers has fallen by 40% in the past two years, the Agricultural Science Association annual conference was told in Tullow, Co Carlow.

JUST 14 kilometres from Cork city, in the lush Waterfall countryside, a tidy residential holding should draw considerable interest.

THE Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association yesterday announced the unopposed election of two new vice presidents, Paddy Kent, New Ross, Co Wexford, and Edmund Phelan, Caher, Fenor, Co Waterford.

IT took years to sell, but when it did it sold well. Templehill Farm, on one of the highest points to the west of Cork city, has been bought by a local farmer for in excess of €3m.

A 21-year-old man whose heavily-intoxicated and cocaine-fuelled dangerous driving caused the death of three young men has been jailed for eight years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ are to continue the search today for a robber who fled the scene of a fatal car crash in Co Louth at the weekend which left one of his accomplices dead.

Dublin-based software company ANAM has secured a contract with the Brazilian mobile operator BCP.