CAP / Schemes
BEEP weighing scales rental roll-out begins
The roll-out of rental scales, that participants in the Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) scheme can use to record cow...
CAP / Schemes
The roll-out of rental scales, that participants in the Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) scheme can use to record cow...
Agri Politics
Responding to a call from the First Vice-President of the European Parliament, Mairead McGuinness, to release preliminary results of analysis...
Agri Politics
Calls have been made for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to release preliminary results of its analysis...
CAP / Schemes
Balancing payments under the Green, Low-Carbon, Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS) will begin this week, two weeks ahead of schedule, according to...
CAP / Schemes
Young Irish farmers may be able to avail of the newly announced €1 billion loans package – launched by the European...
Agri-Business
A new social insurance scheme for the self-employed will be introduced from this November, under which former farmers who no...
Rural Life
Michael Creed, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has said that the €1 billion loan package announced today,...
Agri Politics
The feasibility of a “once-off” targeted scheme for “voluntary farm building relocation” is being considered by the Department of Agriculture,...
CAP / Schemes
With just shy of 50,000 online applications already submitted for the 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Department of Agriculture, Food...
CAP / Schemes
At a farmer meeting in Co. Roscommon this week the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform post-2020 was a hot...
Agri-Business
Work permits for employees from outside of Europe in roles in the meat processing, dairy farming and horticulture sectors are...
Beef
As the new Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) continues following its launch in February, the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF)...
Agri Politics
Farmers around the country who have had their Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) entitlements reduced can appeal the decision. During Dáil...
Rural Life
A meeting scheduled for Easter Monday, April 22, will discuss the “severe pressure” farmers are under, as well as the...
Agri Politics
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has today, Wednesday, April 17, launched an environmental exhibition and...
CAP / Schemes
Members of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) arrived at the Department of Health this morning, Tuesday, April 16, to protest...
Beef
Farmers are losing confidence in Bord Bia’s Quality Assurance schemes for “failing to deliver” on price, producers from the floor...
CAP / Schemes
The European Commission has approved EU state aid for the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH) in Ireland. Although the...