The Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group is set continuing its protest outside the Taoiseach’s Enda Kenny Constituency Office in Castlebar,...
September 5, 2014
In advance of a meeting between the Commonage Implementation Committee and the farm bodies, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the...
September 3, 2014
Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group spokesman Brendan Joyce has confirmed to Agriland that a letter seeking the support of Enda...
September 2, 2014
Following a meeting with the Department of Agriculture this week on the problems regarding new stocking rates for commonages under...
August 30, 2014
The United Farmers Association (UFA) is calling on Minister Coveney to scrap the proposal to implement his collective agreement for...
August 24, 2014
Commonage farmers will not accept collective agreements as a measure to gain entry into the new GLAS scheme, according to...
August 21, 2014
The recently-formed Concerned Hill Farmers Action Group will host a public meeting in the Castle Court Hotel, Westport on Wednesday,...
August 15, 2014
Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Agriculture, Éamon Ó Cuív, has called on Minister Simon Coveney to meet with commonage farmers regarding...
August 12, 2014
A national protest group has now been officially formed to campaign for changes to the new Rural Development Programme (RDP), Tubercurrry...
August 4, 2014
All members of the new Commonage Implementation Committee have now been appointed and the Committee will announce its first meeting...
July 30, 2014
National IFA Rural Development Committee Vice Chairman Colm O’Donnell has told Agriland that hill farmers throughout Ireland feel the hierarchy...
July 29, 2014
Some commonage farmers may not be eligible for the Single Farm Payment (SFP) from 2015, due to new regulations being...
July 22, 2014
IFA Hill Committee Chairman Pat Dunne has set out the priorities for IFA in advance of the forthcoming discussions on...
July 10, 2014
Implementation of the new commonage framework is an ongoing process according to Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney. Responding to a...
March 27, 2014
A review of Ireland’s commonage framework is under way, where key communications between farmers directly managing the lands, relevant state agencies,...
March 13, 2014
Future agri-environmental schemes offer the opportunity for claimants with commonage land to receive slightly higher payments than a non-commonage farmer...
January 23, 2014
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