Rural Life
TAMS II: Deadline extension for young farmer grants
The online system for preparing applications for the €120m Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme went live last week. The scheme...
Rural Life
The online system for preparing applications for the €120m Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme went live last week. The scheme...
Agri-Business
Almost 3,000 farmers were found to have non-compliances relating to Animal identification and Registration following inspections last year, according to...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has no ‘special powers’, according to its General Secretary Aidan O’Driscoll. Appearing before...
Sheep
Sheep2015 is taking place on Saturday June 20 at the Teagasc Mellows Campus in Athenry, Co. Galway. The event is free...
Agri-Business
Almost 40% of farmers were hit with a penalty or sanction following cross compliance inspections last year, according to latest...
Dairy
The new Superlevy Instalment Scheme is set to ease the cash flow burden on dairy farmers facing a superlevy bill...
Beef
When farmers receive their information pack on the Beef Data and Genomics Programme it will be like a ‘bad day...
Beef
Farmers whose bull may be downgraded from a four- or five-star status in the Beef Data and Genomics Scheme, will...
Rural Life
The Department of Agriculture has released a handy FAQ document outlining answers to some of the key questions farmers will...
Agri-Business
Over 800 applications to the Organic Farming Scheme have been received by the Department of Agriculture, which, it says, is a...
Agri-Business
The plight of the 3,900 so-called ‘Forgotten Farmers’ is to be considered by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture tomorrow (Tuesday)....
Environment
The Department of Agriculture is examining a limited number of cases where farmers were unable to submit GLAS plans before last months...
Agri-Business
Funding for the National Reserve in 2016 is set to be limited, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney....
Agri-Business
The Department today announced the identification of a suspected BSE case in county Louth. The case was identified through the...
Agri-Business
Following the announcement by the Department of Agriculture of a suspected BSE case in county Louth, the Minister for Agriculture...
Agri-Business
Thousands of farmers who were not part of the Single Farm Payment Scheme have applied to receive entitlements under the...
Beef
The national beef kill last week was down again from the same week last year, figures from the Department of...
Beef
The World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) has recognised Ireland as a country having a negligible risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)....