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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...
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“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...
Forestry
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that it would “challenge any move” by the government to “claim ownership of...
Environment
Teagasc has confirmed that a number of businesses involved in the trading of carbon credits, have been in contact with...
Environment
Farmeye has signed a contract with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Solutions department in a new deal which will...
Environment
Minister Eamon Ryan has introduced amendments to the climate bill to give the “[environment] minister the ability, through regulation, to...
Environment
Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has stressed that agriculture “has to play its part in real emissions reductions –...
Environment
The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) has welcomed environment minister Eamon Ryan’s decision to accept two amendments to the Climate Action...
Forestry
A new study involving researchers at University of Limerick (UL) has highlighted the role that the planting of new commercial...
Environment
Research is underway to calculate the carbon sequestering potential of Irish farms – but the ability to calculate accurate figures...
N.Ireland
Sinn Féin MLA Declan McAleer has called on the Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to develop an...