Rural Life
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has announced the commencement of advance payments under the 2025 Eco-Scheme.
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) has opened the application process for the 2024 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS).
Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue announced the commencement of advance payments under the 2023 Eco-Scheme worth €184 million.
Advance payments will be provided to farmers on Tuesday, October 31, for those have qualified for an eco-scheme payment.
Agri Politics
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers' Association is seeking a tax exemption for all payments farmers receive under environmental schemes.
Environment
Farmers can visit a new website created by the European Commission to discover what impact their farm practices can have on the environment.
Almost 130,000 (128,712) farmers applied online for the new Basic Income Support for Sustainable (BISS) and other area-based schemes.
A calculation issue involving space for nature percentages is to agri-scheme applications, including over 1,000 that are already submitted.
The Eco-scheme opt out rate has dropped from12 to 2% after the DAFM altered the interface on the online BISS application form.
Tillage Technical
A total of eight agricultural practices (APs) have been defined within the criteria laid down within the new eco-scheme.
For some farmers the Eco Scheme will make a major contribution to their new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments.
Changes have been made to the requirements of the 'Space for Nature' action under the eco-scheme...
Farmers’ individual Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition 8 (GAEC 8) and ‘eco scheme...
Under the next CAP, maintaining a stocking rate below 1.2LU/ha will be counted as two actions in the eco-scheme.
Beef
An agri-consultant based in the midlands has urged farmers to avail of the Agri-Environment...
Ireland's proposed eco-scheme in the next CAP from 2023 will need improving, the European Commission says in its observation letter.
A degressive payment rate may be developed for the eco-scheme under Pillar I of the Common Agricultural Policy, according to the latest CSP.
Reducing funding for the eco-scheme "would be negatively perceived and undermine future CAP budgets", one farm organisations has warned.
The Department is set to ask the European Commission to include designated Natura land in the new eco-scheme, Agriland understands.
Dairy
The lack of milk recording in the eco-scheme is a "completely fundamental error that will have to be rectified", according to the ICMSA.
The new measure regarding soil sampling, which is to be included in the eco-scheme as part of the...
Three new measures under the new eco-scheme will be made available to farmers to choose from, while the original five will be amended.
Macra na Feirme is reiterating calls for the inclusion of faecal sampling and milk recording as...
