An oireachtas committee this week published a report on future of the sector and our correspondent Amy Forde asked the Chair of the committee Pat Deering, what the main points from the report were.

Brexit is an ever constant issue on the horizon, and Lord Curry known as 'the champion of farmers' spoke to our correspondent Peter McCann at Queen's University Belfast about Brexit negotiations, the future agricultural policy in the UK and the definition of the public goods that farmers provide.

Farming remains the most dangerous occupation in Ireland with an average of 13 deaths per 1,000 workers on farms, compared to 2.5 deaths per 1,000 workers in other industries. Our correspondent Amy Forde asked Pat Griffin senior inspector for agriculture with the HSA, what needed to be done in farming to make it safer and ensure there were fewer fatalities

Some of you will know that the the Irish Farmers Journal is hosting National Dairy Day at Punchestown Event Centre, tomorrow on the 23rd of November. Included in the line up of speakers is Craig Bell, man from New Zealand who is now Director of Letissima Dairy in Brazil. Our agri-business correspondent Lorcan Allen had a chance to catch up with him before the main event, and asked him how he'd got started in the industry.

Now, rural crime remains is a serious issue in Ireland, with ongoing reports of attacks on farmers in isolated areas in particular. Amy Forde was in Dáil Eireann this week and asked Fianna Fáil TDs Jim O'Callaghan and Lisa Chambers, about a motion they were trying to put through to tackle rural crime.

Last week Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, CEO of Bord Bia Tara McCarthy, over 30 representatives from Ireland's food and drink sector and Hannah Quinn-Mulligan took part in a Bord Bia led trade mission in Japan and South Korea, and here's a report.

And finally we have a special agri-jos focus in the paper this week, and our correspondent Thomas Hubert caught up with the writer of the piece Anthony Jordan to find out what job creation in the agri-industry was like at the moment.