A compulsory question on the higher-level home economics paper, which focused on how âhealth and wellbeingâ and âresponsible livingâ influence our food choices, has received a negative reaction from students. The question is worth a quarter of the overall grade.
âStudents are usually given a table which they can write about,â said Margaret Kinsella, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at Bunclody Vocational School in Co Wexford.
âThis year, they were given an infographic and they just werenât expecting it. They were asked about health and wellbeing and then, separately, about responsible living. They found the concepts ambiguous and hard to separate between.â
The average growth rate for the last week was 80kg DM/ha. The forecast for the weekend is for temperatures in the low to mid-twenties with rain in some areas.
The mix of warm and wet weather is expected to see growth rates in most counties to continue on an upward trend.
The dry weather has been a great opportunity to get silage done on a lot of farms.
Wet weather in May meant many had to delay cutting for a number of weeks which meant crops were heavy but this will have had an effect on quality.
Good-quality silage
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Poots doth protest too much
about 11 hours ago
Sir, – Edwin Poots is setting a handy benchmark for himself. He tells his people that Dublin is taking food off the tables of Northern Ireland and is denying medicines to its hospitals. In the very likely events that people there don’t starve and local hospitals don’t run out of medical supplies, he can claim a triumph, even if nothing is done about the dastardly protocol (News, May 30th). Do you mind the cunning of him?
His recent comments echo his earlier warning that hospitals and schools in Northern Ireland are at risk of running out of food due to the implementation of the protocol (News, January 14th). One might think that the threatened shortages of food and medicines in schools and hospitals would cause cross-community outrage but that does not appear to be the case.