The ‘Sustainable Uplands Agriculture-environment Scheme (SUAS)’ Pilot Project was officially launched by Wicklow Uplands Council this week. The €1.95 million project is designed…
Efforts were made yesterday to break the “logjam” that has developed where a “substantial” number of Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS) commonage farmers…
Farmers in Glenasmole, near Tallaght in Dublin, are campaigning for the installation of cattle grids to prevent their sheep from wandering off commonage…
Hundreds of commonage management plans (CMPs) have yet to be completed under the Green, Low-Carbon, Environment Scheme (GLAS), according to the Minister for…
Farmers are being put under “tremendous pressure” to submit commonage framework plans by the deadline of October 31, according to Sinn Fein’s agriculture…
Padraig Gibbons has been appointed by the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, as the new chair of the independent Commonage Implementation Committee. The…
Some 15,000 commonage farmers have been left in limbo by Minister Humphreys and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, INHFA National Secretary Michael McDonnell…
Almost 400 commonages around Ireland are without an approved GLAS planner to complete commonage management plans. The Irish Natura & Hill Farmers Association…
Clarification is still needed on land eligibility guidelines for hill and commonage farmers, according to the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA).…
Commonage farmers face payment delays when other farmers on the commonage have issues, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association has said. It says…
The Department of Agriculture has published its guidelines for commonage planning. However, it has still to publish the full list of approved advisors…
