Environment
Department says GLAS system is working for advisors who 'prepared well'
The General Secretary of the Department of Agriculture has hit back at criticism of its management of the roll out...
Environment
The General Secretary of the Department of Agriculture has hit back at criticism of its management of the roll out...
Agri-Business
The closing dates for a number of schemes vital to many farmers incomes will close this month.
Beef
The new Beef Data and Genomics Programme will address what has been described as an ‘absolute chasm’ between the top...
Agri-Business
Talks in relation to the simplification of the CAP were greeted with criticism of the current reform process by Fianna...
Beef
Cattle numbers for 2016/17 look very high and there needs to be focus on live cattle exports between now and...
Environment
Have you got an ring fort or a castle ruin on your farm? If you’re a grassland farmer, under GLAS farmers...
Agri-Business
The distribution of staff is an operational matter for Teagasc, according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney, as adviser...
Environment
More than 900 island farmers are to benefit from a special payment under the Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme, the...
Environment
Latest figures from the Department of Agriculture show that some 24,799 GLAS applications have been registered on its online system...
Opinion
The Minister for Agriculture must take the blame for the disappointing numbers around GLAS. Since its inception, GLAS has been...
Environment
The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has taken 11 successful prosecutions in recent years relating to individuals for breaches...
Environment
After reducing two large Slieve Aughty commonages by 55% (from 1090ha to 476ha) and 64% (from 184ha to 67ha), the...
Dairy
The sale of raw, or unpasteurised milk, was banned in Ireland in 1996. However, 10 years later it was overturned...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture’s new Knowledge Transfer Scheme will be opened to farmers 5,000 dairy and 7,000 beef farmers this...
Environment
To date over 21,000 applications have been registered on the GLAS online system, of which more than 13,000 have already...
Agri-Business
Some of the key details of the Department’s new Knowledge Transfer measure under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 have been...
Dairy
The Minister for Agriculture has received a response from the Chief States Solicitor’s Office in relation to possible milk quota...
Environment
After much speculation the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney has announced that he intends to open a second tranche of...