Agri-Business
€22.1m GLAS balancing payments issuing to 36,500 farmers
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Wednesday, March 8) announced that balancing payments under...
GLAS
Environment
Pearl Mussel Project average payment increases to €4,800
The average payment made to the almost 500 farmers taking part in the Pearl Mussel Project (PMP) increased to €4,800...
Environment
New life breathed into Lombardstown farm building
A Lombardstown, Co. Cork building, originally constructed as a dwelling house, which subsequently fell into disrepair in the early 1900s...
Agri-Business
Top up GLAS+ payments totaling €3.41m issued
Top-up payments totaling €3.41 million will be issued, from this week, to farmers who signed up for the Green Low...
CAP / Schemes
ACRES will not open early in 2023 - McConalogue
Farmers who have missed out on applying to the Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) Tranche 1 will not get an...
Environment
1850s former estate building gets new lease of life
Dating back to the mid-1850s, this imposing two-storey stone building, once part of the Cotton family estate, in Tulsk, Co....
Environment
Clare woman completes second GLAS project
A Co. Clare woman recently completed a second project under the GLAS traditional farm buildings scheme, having battled bad weather...
Rural Life
1830s granary restored to former glory on Cavan farm
Farming in Stradone, Co. Cavan, Thomas Cooney is a beef and dairy farmer who recently undertook an ambitious project to...
CAP / Schemes
Minister announces start of GLAS payments of €113 million
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has announced that advance payments have commenced for 2022 under the...
Environment
Memories of childhood evoked with repair of outbuilding
A part-time Roscommon farmer with a suckler to beef herd, has repaired a freestanding three-bay single storey outbuilding under the...
Buildings
1890s farm building transformed to former glory
A farm building in Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, dating back to the 1890s, has been repaired to great effect under the...
Rural Life
'Old ways' and grant aid restores cobble yard on Carnaross farm
Farming 70 suckler cows on the Balgree hills located near Carnaross, Co. Meath, is Malachy Plunkett and his two sons...
Agri Politics
Concerns raised about payment gaps between GLAS and ACRES
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) rural development chairperson Michael Biggins has raised concerns about farmer incomes if there is a...
Rural Life
GLAS project sees renovation of Tipperary farm sheds
Donal Corcoran, from Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, realised at the start of this year that his existing farm sheds were in...
Rural Life
GLAS funding for restoration of 'historic' stone wall in Leitrim
Work is nearing completion on the conservation of an historic wall which formed a boundary of the former Lough Rinn...
Buildings
Back to glory: GLAS grant helps repair stone barn in Kerry
“It’s all a bit mental, but fun,” Kate Carmody told Agriland as a project to repair a 200-year-old stone barn...
Environment
Roscommon farmyard transformed by GLAS repairs
The reconstruction of a wall and piers and the rehanging of a gate have transformed the character of a Roscommon...
Agri-Business
IBLA: New agri-environment scheme timeline 'inadequate'
The Irish Beef and Lamb Association (IBLA) has raised concerns about the timeline for farmers to apply for the new...
