Forestry
DAFM announces changes to assessment of some forestry applications
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is making a change to the way in which forestry projects,...
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is making a change to the way in which forestry projects,...
Forestry
Farm Forestry Committee chairman with the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Vincent Nally has said the requirement for farmers to get...
Forestry
Field data collection for the National Forest Inventory (NFI) will be completed in 2021 and results are due to be...
Forestry
Cork had the highest afforestation area in 2020 at 293ha followed by Kerry at 289ha, according to the latest forest...
Environment
An orange, or ‘high-fire risk‘ warning has been issued by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). Effective...
Forestry
The Minister of State for forestry, Pippa Hackett has announced that she has asked the project board of Project Woodland...
Machinery Focus
The Irish forestry sector harvests around four million tonnes of biomass annually, a figure that is projected to rise to...
Forestry
By Gordon Deegan A financial controller who highlighted alleged financial irregularities at a forestry company has lost his unfair constructive...
Forestry
Recently-made changes to the private forestry felling licence application process has been welcomed as a “positive development”, though criticised as...
Forestry
A new study involving researchers at University of Limerick (UL) has highlighted the role that the planting of new commercial...
Forestry
The Irish Forest Owners (IFO) group has warned that many forest owners may not be aware of the true value...
Environment
An Irish baby brand is going to plant a tree for every cot or bed sold this year in its...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being called on to ensure that all applications currently in the...
Forestry
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), with responsibility for forestry, Pippa Hackett, has...
Forestry
The “low output” from the forestry sector leading to a “lack of supplies” is having knock-on effects in other industries,...
Forestry
Minister of State Pippa Hackett has visited a 10 and a half acre Iarnród Éireann site where 12,000 native trees...
Forestry
Illegal dumping in forests owned by Coillte – much of which is free to recycle – has cost the company...
Forestry
“Evolving land use models incorporating forestry are creating carbon-smart agriculture”, along with “empowering less intensive agriculture methodologies through which farmers...