CAP / Schemes
'Yellow card' system to end minor fines given EU committee backing
The enhanced use of the “yellow card” system to end farmers being fined for minor errors and “honest mistakes” has...
CAP / Schemes
The enhanced use of the “yellow card” system to end farmers being fined for minor errors and “honest mistakes” has...
Beef
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will commence an “intensive farm safety inspection campaign” beginning next Monday, January 28. There...
CAP / Schemes
EU farmland is monitored by satellite for inspection up to three times a week, which will eventually replace the need...
Agri Politics
Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed today appeared before the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine to brief the...
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has today published its ‘Programme of Work’ for 2018 detailing key priorities, themes and...
Rural Life
It has been confirmed by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) that 400 farm inspections are planned for this month....
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will inspect 2,000 farms as its initial target over the course of 2018 –...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has spent €947,000 this year on farm satellite inspections, according to the...
CAP / Schemes
The Department of Agriculture has defended the inspections procedure in Co. Tipperary as “broadly in line with expectations, given the...
Agri-Business
A review of inspections carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on farms, and the appeal...
Rural Life
Some 966 farm inspections and investigations have been carried out by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in 2017 to date,...
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is set to begin a ‘month-long, intensive’ farm inspection campaign on Tuesday, May 2,...
Rural Life
Almost 500 farms will be visited by inspectors from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in March, as part of...
Agri-Business
The recent ruling on the O’Connor vs the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has implications for farmers who...
Agri-Business
The recent High Court decision around farm inspection appeals highlights the need for an overhaul of the farm inspection and appeals...
Agri-Business
Farmers are set to be subjected to less on-the-spot farm inspections under a package of CAP simplification initiatives announced by the...