N.Ireland
DAERA launches draft Ammonia Strategy consultation
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a consultation on its draft Ammonia Strategy. The draft...
N.Ireland
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a consultation on its draft Ammonia Strategy. The draft...
Agri-Business
Yara has announced today (Thursday, August 25) that it will be implementing further ammonia production cuts as a result of...
Environment
Widespread implementation of ammonia reduction technologies in agriculture is needed for Ireland’s compliance with EU air pollutant reduction targets, according...
Dairy News
Appropriate measures to lower ammonia (NH3) emissions at farm level need to be implemented as the expansion of the dairy...
Pig/Poultry
A new project to reduce the environmental impact of ammonia emissions from livestock has been awarded £600k funding from the...
Environment
Revised data by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “confirms that the state has been underestimating ammonia emissions”, according to one NGO....
Opinion
The significance of last week’s confirmation by Teagasc, that the use of protected urea does not lead to residues appearing...
N.Ireland
A document outlining key measures to tackle ammonia, which is likely to change the shape of Northern Irish farming, is...
N.Ireland
Staff at an influential Stormont committee have said it has been “difficult” to get responses from an environmental planning quango...
Environment
Over the course of 2019, the environmental goals of the farming and land use sector (including forestry) were progressed in...
N.Ireland
Minister Poots has defended his decision to intervene over agricultural planning issues in Northern Ireland. Shared Environmental Services (SES), a...
Environment
An updated marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for ammonia emissions has been published by Teagasc. The publication called ‘An Analysis...
N.Ireland
A series of three lunchtime webinars will explore the science behind Northern Ireland’s agricultural woes with ammonia. Run by the...
Agri-Business
An environmental quango responsible for stalling Northern Ireland agricultural planning applications has burned through £2.3 million pounds of taxpayers’ money...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister and agriculture committee chairman made good on promises to meet with farmers to discuss solutions to...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
Rural Life
“We are farmers, scientists and environmentalists too. We want to help resolve the ammonia levels issue,” said two Laois pupils,...