A sheep farmer from Roundstone, Co. Galway, has reported that 10 of his sheep have gone missing in what he...
November 23, 2018
The ‘Sustainable Uplands Agriculture-environment Scheme (SUAS)’ Pilot Project was officially launched by Wicklow Uplands Council this week. The €1.95 million...
November 21, 2018
Efforts were made yesterday to break the “logjam” that has developed where a “substantial” number of Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme...
June 20, 2018
Farmers in Glenasmole, near Tallaght in Dublin, are campaigning for the installation of cattle grids to prevent their sheep from...
January 28, 2018
Hundreds of commonage management plans (CMPs) have yet to be completed under the Green, Low-Carbon, Environment Scheme (GLAS), according to...
November 24, 2017
Farmers are being put under “tremendous pressure” to submit commonage framework plans by the deadline of October 31, according to...
October 16, 2017
Padraig Gibbons has been appointed by the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, as the new chair of the independent Commonage...
November 23, 2016
Autumn GLAS payments will not be paid out to commonage farmers who have not completed a Commonage Management Plan (CMP),...
September 23, 2016
Some 15,000 commonage farmers have been left in limbo by Minister Humphreys and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, INHFA National...
August 30, 2016
Almost 400 commonages around Ireland are without an approved GLAS planner to complete commonage management plans. The Irish Natura &...
July 29, 2016
Demands for a certain type of product has had a dramatic impact on the herd profiles of suckler operations in...
April 2, 2016
Commonage farmers in GLAS must ensure that the Maximum Eligible Area (MEA) of the commonage as declared on the 2015...
March 23, 2016
Clarification is still needed on land eligibility guidelines for hill and commonage farmers, according to the Irish Natura and Hill...
March 21, 2016
Calls have been made for the Department of Agriculture to allow for a higher GLAS payments to be made in...
January 11, 2016
Over 30% of commonage shareholders opted to join the first tranche of GLAS, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Simon...
November 27, 2015
Commonage farmers face payment delays when other farmers on the commonage have issues, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association has...
October 12, 2015
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney has said he will monitor the progress of advisors in the preparation of commonage...
September 28, 2015
The Department of Agriculture has published its guidelines for commonage planning. However, it has still to publish the full list...
August 14, 2015
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