Tillage
Carbon audits must be more than a ‘tick-box’ exercise - agri-consultants
Regular carbon audits must be taken to a level that significantly exceeds the formality of a ‘tick-box’ exercise. This is...
carbon sequestration
Forestry
Report: Key role of fast-growing conifers in carbon sequestration
An official UK report has highlighted the potential of plantations of fast-growing conifers to sequester extremely high levels of carbon...
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Significant weight gain seen in calves using transition milk
A trial has shown weight gain advantages and improved health in calves fed a transition milk (TM) replacer for the...
Tillage Technical
Designing root systems to reach new soil depths
Scientists have discovered how to potentially design root systems to grow deeper by altering their angle of growth to be...
N.Ireland
Fermanagh farm stores 33,000t of CO2e in top 30cm of soil
Over 70 people were in attendance at an Accelerating Ruminant Carbon Zero (ARCZero) farm walk in Co. Fermanagh on Tuesday...
Video
100Ha farm sequestering €37,000 worth of carbon/year
“Currently, the farmer needs to go to a voluntary carbon market to sell carbon but post 2030, it’s expected the...
Environment
Organic farming should be recognised as 'carbon farming' - IFOAM
IFOAM Organics Europe has urged the need for a holistic and multi-dimensional approach to carbon farming, focusing not only on...
Environment
Farmland video: Carbon sequestration must be separate to eco scheme
Farmers will end up “doing more work for the same money” if carbon sequestration and carbon farming gets subsumed into...
Environment
Carbon farming: Floor price needed to incentivise trading
A panel discussion on the opportunities of carbon farming was held this week (Tuesday, February 1, 2022) in the European...
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Info events set for farmers interested in Wagyu cattle
Warrendale Wagyu Ireland is currently seeking farmers interested in producing, rearing and finishing Wagyu cattle. The group is set to...
Machinery Focus
Machinery Focus: To plough or not plough?
10 years ago, researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire in the UK set out on a long-term project to...
Environment
Soil carbon sequestration: Is it a geographic lottery?
Farmers face a ‘geographic lottery’ in terms of soil carbon sequestration, if plans to reward them financially for increasing soil...
Beef
Teagasc outlines carbon value of hedges and grassland
After much speculation among farmers, Teagasc has moved to outline the “inventory carbon values” for Irish hedgerows and grasslands. In...
Agri Politics
Oireachtas committee to discuss carbon sequestration and storage in agriculture
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will meet today (Wednesday, November 17) to discuss carbon sequestration...
N.Ireland
Soil carbon levels keep on rising after 50 years of slurry trial
The fact that soil carbon sequestration levels in grassland have kept on rising 50 years into a bespoke slurry spreading...
Forestry
IFA seeks 'legal advice on ownership' of 'carbon sequestered in forests'
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that it would “challenge any move” by the government to “claim ownership of...
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Native Tree Area Scheme: Making it easier to plant trees
If you’re a farmer looking to generate extra income, the Native Tree Area Scheme (NTAS) is a great opportunity to...
Environment
International businesses contact Teagasc about trading carbon
Teagasc has confirmed that a number of businesses involved in the trading of carbon credits, have been in contact with...
Environment
Farmeye links up with space agency to gauge carbon value of hedgerows
Farmeye has signed a contract with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Solutions department in a new deal which will...
Environment
Changes made to carbon budget accounting provisions in climate bill
Minister Eamon Ryan has introduced amendments to the climate bill to give the “[environment] minister the ability, through regulation, to...
Environment
'Allowing for removals does not remove need to reduce emissions'
Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has stressed that agriculture “has to play its part in real emissions reductions –...