Environment
Department rules out further green waste burning extension
The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) has said that there will be no further extension to the...
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Environment
Call for 'common sense approach' to burning green waste
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Environment Committee chair Paul O’Brien is calling for “a common sense approach” to be taken...
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Vaccination is a key pillar in the preventative approach to health and welfare of pigs. The pig industry has removed...
Environment
Final exemption for burning green waste ends next week
Farmers are being reminded that the final exemption for the on-farm burning of cut agricultural green waste will come to...
Environment
What are the alternatives to burning agricultural green waste?
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has written to farmers this week outlining the alternatives to burning...
Environment
Final exemption for burning green waste begins this week
The final extension to the exemption allowing for the onsite burning of cut green agricultural waste will begin on Friday...
Environment
Minister warns of farm payment penalties for illegal burning
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has today (Wednesday, March 1) issued a warning to landowners and...
Rural Life
Extension to derogation on burning green waste sought
Calls have been issued to extend the exemption for the controlled burning of agricultural green waste due to a lack...
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Farmland interviews Minister of State for land use and biodiversity, Pippa Hackett
On this episode of Farmland, Agriland editor Stella Meehan sits down with Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture,...
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Service of automatic calf feeder is 'top class' - Tipperary farmer
Ned Kelly, a seasoned farmer from Ballycommon, Co. Tipperary reflects on his six-year journey with the JFC Evolution Automatic Calf...
Rural Life
Farmland: Hackett discusses forestry licences and solar PV supports
This week’s episode of Farmland features a sit-down interview with Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and...
Environment
Minister of State rules out further exemption on burning green waste
Minister of State Ossian Smyth has said he does not expect a further exemption on the burning of agricultural green...
Rural Life
Exemption to burning rules for 2022 signed by Minister Ryan
The extension to the exemption under waste management rules which allows farmers to burn green waste this year has been...
Environment
TDs welcome decision to reinstate green waste burning exemption
The decision yesterday (Wednesday, February 2) to reinstate a derogation for farmers to burn green waste has been welcomed by...
Rural Life
Exemption on burning green waste to be reinstated - minister
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has told an Oireachtas committee that a derogation for farmers...
Rural Life
Burning of green waste 'under review' by department
The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has confirmed to Agriland that an exemption allowing farmers to burn green...
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In 2023, over 9,000 new members joined the Bord Bia Sustainable Beef and Lamb Assurance Scheme (SBLAS), primarily to fulfill...
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Government 'out of touch' on green waste issue - ICSA
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has said that the removal of an exemption allowing farmers to burn...