Forestry
Cabinet approves new forestry programme
The Cabinet has approved the final version of the new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 during a special meeting in Co. Wicklow...
Afforestation Scheme
Forestry
Average of 60 forestry licences issued per week in July
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued an average of 60 forestry licences per week for...
Forestry
'Failed' forestry deemed 'satisfactory' by department
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been in touch with a farmer in Co. Kilkenny regarding claims...
Forestry
Rock and hard place: The 'ticking time-bomb' of failing forestry
A farmer who has been left “between a rock and a hard place” over a plot of forestry which has...
Agri-Business
How can forestry fit into a dairy farmer's plans?
Planting “suboptimal” parts of farmland for forestry could fit in well for dairy farmers going forward, with carbon emissions and...
Forestry
'Complementary activity': Farmers encouraged to consider forestry
The start of the 2017-18 forestry planting season and afforestation programme was launched by the Minister of State at the...
Forestry
'Farmers must be paid on all land set aside or planting rates will continue to fall'
There is mounting concern that the rate of farmer (forestry) planting will continue to fall, if farmers are not paid...