
Environment
Rate of carbon sequestration in Ireland could be underestimated
Results of preliminary research carried out by VistaMilk SFI Research Centre and Teagasc suggests that the rate of carbon sequestration...
Environment
Results of preliminary research carried out by VistaMilk SFI Research Centre and Teagasc suggests that the rate of carbon sequestration...
Environment
High-tech drones are being deployed across Scotland as part of an innovative project to estimate the carbon stored on the...
Dairy
A group of representatives from across the agricultural industry gathered at the Netterville Institute in Dowth, Co. Meath, for a...
Opinion
Calls for the banishment of ploughing are becoming ever louder and more sonorous, with just about everybody who has an...
N.Ireland
The Agri-Food and Biosciences’ Institute (AFBI) is confirming a 92% submission rate for the Soil Nutrient Health Scheme, courtesy of...
Tillage
Regular carbon audits must be taken to a level that significantly exceeds the formality of a ‘tick-box’ exercise. This is...
Forestry
An official UK report has highlighted the potential of plantations of fast-growing conifers to sequester extremely high levels of carbon...
Tillage Technical
Scientists have discovered how to potentially design root systems to grow deeper by altering their angle of growth to be...
N.Ireland
Over 70 people were in attendance at an Accelerating Ruminant Carbon Zero (ARCZero) farm walk in Co. Fermanagh on Tuesday...
Video
“Currently, the farmer needs to go to a voluntary carbon market to sell carbon but post 2030, it’s expected the...
Environment
IFOAM Organics Europe has urged the need for a holistic and multi-dimensional approach to carbon farming, focusing not only on...
Environment
Farmers will end up “doing more work for the same money” if carbon sequestration and carbon farming gets subsumed into...
Environment
A panel discussion on the opportunities of carbon farming was held this week (Tuesday, February 1, 2022) in the European...
Machinery Focus
10 years ago, researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire in the UK set out on a long-term project to...
Environment
Farmers face a ‘geographic lottery’ in terms of soil carbon sequestration, if plans to reward them financially for increasing soil...
Beef
After much speculation among farmers, Teagasc has moved to outline the “inventory carbon values” for Irish hedgerows and grasslands. In...
Agri Politics
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will meet today (Wednesday, November 17) to discuss carbon sequestration...
N.Ireland
The fact that soil carbon sequestration levels in grassland have kept on rising 50 years into a bespoke slurry spreading...