Environment
2050 targets: Agriculture needs to improve 'environmentally and commercially'
We need to improve agriculture both environmentally and commercially to meet proposed EU targets for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050,...
Environment
We need to improve agriculture both environmentally and commercially to meet proposed EU targets for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050,...
Environment
Any environmental changes which will be required in the agricultural sector will cost money – and the bulk of the...
Rural Life
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action will not recommend a tax on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture when it...
Environment
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has argued in favour of ‘agro-forestry’, saying it offers financial benefits for farmers, but only...
Environment
A former TD and European Parliament President has said that wind energy produced here could offset all of Ireland’s agriculture...
Environment
Genuine working partnerships must be at the heart of any plans to tackle ammonia in Northern Ireland, according to the...
Machinery
Limits on exhaust emissions are getting ever tighter. The start of 2019 will see the introduction of the ‘European Stage...
Environment
Reducing demand for beef, lamb and milk by changing diets could help cut back on methane and nitrous oxide emissions,...
Environment
Origin Green – Ireland’s food and drink sustainability programme – is in danger of being labelled “fake news” by our competitors,...
Environment
Irish dairy farmers are being urged to prepare for unavoidable “extreme weather shocks” in the coming years, a leading climatologist...
Environment
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has said that Ireland must “redouble its sustainability efforts” in...
Environment
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from Irish agriculture are projected to increase by 9% relative to levels recorded in 2005 by...
Environment
Growing livestock numbers – particularly in the national dairy herd – are set to drive an increase in greenhouse gas...
Environment
Two major players in the dairy processing industry on the island of Ireland feature on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s)...
Environment
New targets demanding the reduction of emissions coming from agriculture by 30% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, have been...
Agri-Business
Agriculture makes the greatest contribution to Ireland’s emissions, despite the industry managing to cut releases to below the peak levels seen...
Machinery
Nowadays, technical developments in modern agricultural (and other) diesel engines are driven by emissions legislation. This legislation is designed to reduce the...
Dairy
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture increased by 1.5% in 2015 (0.30 MtCO2eq), a report by the Environmental Protection Agency...