Environment
More than €500,000 will have been paid to farmers who participated in the FarmPEAT results-based agri-environmental programme
The three-year FarmPEAT Project, which is coming to a conclusion in December, is taking stock of the progress it has made in that time.
The FarmPEAT project will host its end-of-project conference and field trip next week, visiting two project farms in Clara, Co. Offaly
'Hands off our land." That was the main message emerging from a farm talk in Co. Galway organised by the IFA to discuss rewetting
Agri-Business
A new farming on peat competition invites students and young people to expand their knowledge of the farmed peat landscape.
Rural Life
Primary and secondary students have been invited to take part in the Love Your Wellies competition to highlight the importance of peatlands.
An event organised by the FarmPEAT project taking place on Clara Bog, Co. Offaly next week will discuss farming on peat soils.
Several opportunities are currently available in the agri-sector, including an officer position for an agri-environmental peatland project.
In the midlands 50 farmers with land adjacent to bogs have been part of the FarmPEAT project which rewards them for environmental actions.
