N.Ireland
A farmer and owl conservationist has highlighted "ludicrous" inadequacies in Northern Ireland's current agri-environment legislation.
Environment
The Pearl Mussel Project (PMP) paid out a total of €1 million in payments to farmers as it came to an end in 2023.
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) has confirmed that 46,230 farmers across the country applied for the new ACRES scheme.
The average payment made to the almost 500 farmers taking part in the Pearl Mussel Project (PMP) increased to €4,800 this year.
Agri Politics
The IFA has claimed that the new agri-environment scheme announced by the government today is likely to be a 'bureaucratic nightmare'.
The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) has said that all farmers applying for payments under environmental schemes must be paid in 2023.
The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) Rural Development Committee chairman Michael Biggins said the...
The use of Carbon Tax revenue to fund a new agri-environment scheme will begin when the new CAP starts in 2023, the minister has clarified.
As the timeline for the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) edges closer - with an expected start...
The Results based Environment Agri Pilot Project (REAP) closes today (Monday, May 10) - and is already oversubscribed, the IFA says.
A TD has called on the government to fulfil a commitment to introduce a new agri-environment scheme for farmers and to review REAP.
The proposed move under the new REAP to exclude commonage and land containing heather "stunned" the INHFA, "confirming its worst fears".
The ICSA has said it is "shocked" at elements of the proposed new Results-based Environment-Agri pilot Project (REAP) scheme.
Proposals on the new Results-based Environment-Agri pilot Project (REAP) scheme have been described as a "huge disappointment" by the ICMSA.
A Cork south west TD is calling on the Department of Agriculture, to retool its agri-environment pilot scheme, with the farm payment scheme.
Over 6,000 are no longer participating in GLAS for 2021, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has confirmed.
The agri-environment pilot will include the option of low-input permanent pasture as an "anchor option", Minister McConalogue has said.
The incoming pilot agri-environment scheme will have an estimated average payment of "in or around" €4,700, Minister McConalogue says.
The proposed pilot agri-environment scheme will be "no better than GLAS for payments - but more challenging to comply with", the ICSA says.
Farmers need the government's promised new agri-environmental pilot scheme to be a "meaningful scheme - with a base payment of €10,000".
The next agricultural environmental scheme has got to be index linked to 1994, the year of the original REPS, according to one farmer representative group.
Farmers are being called on to engage with the public consultation for a new agri-environmental pilot scheme.
The opening of public consultation on the development of a new agri-environment results-based pilot project has been announced today.
