Opinion
The success of the Commonage campaign should give the IFA food for thought
The recent success of the commonage protesters should be celebrated in every farming household throughout Ireland. It represents one of those rare...
Opinion
The recent success of the commonage protesters should be celebrated in every farming household throughout Ireland. It represents one of those rare...
Environment
The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said he has listened to the to the concerns of commonage farmers and...
Environment
The agreement reached between the Department of Agriculture and the Hill Farmers Action Group concerning access to the new GLAS...
Environment
Collective agreements, as a requirement for entry into the new GLAS scheme, have been scrapped, according to the Hill Farmer...
Environment
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney must immediately clarify his new commonage rules and proceed immediately with public meetings and clinics...
Environment
Hill farmers should not suffer because proposals in relation to the implementation of the new Rural Development Plan (RDP) are...
Environment
Details of the planned information meetings for commonage farmers to be hosted by his Department at a number of venues...
Environment
No commonage farmer can be refused access to the GLAS scheme due to the decisions of other shareholders insisted ICSA rural...
Environment
After 900 farmers attended the Concerned Hill Farmers Group in Letterkenny last Friday night, commonage farmers are continuing their protest...
Environment
A meeting is set to take place in Brussels on the issue of new rules being imposed by the Department...
Environment
Up to 900 commonage farmers attended a meeting in Clanree Hotel Letterkenny in Donegal tonight. Organisers see the meeting as a...
Sheep
The Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group is set continuing its protest outside the Taoiseach’s Enda Kenny Constituency Office in Castlebar,...
Sheep
In advance of a meeting between the Commonage Implementation Committee and the farm bodies, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the...
Sheep
Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group spokesman Brendan Joyce has confirmed to Agriland that a letter seeking the support of Enda...
Sheep
Following a meeting with the Department of Agriculture this week on the problems regarding new stocking rates for commonages under...
Sheep
The United Farmers Association (UFA) is calling on Minister Coveney to scrap the proposal to implement his collective agreement for...
Sheep
Commonage farmers will not accept collective agreements as a measure to gain entry into the new GLAS scheme, according to...
Environment
The recently-formed Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group will host a public meeting in the Castle Court Hotel, Westport on Wednesday,...