Agri-Business
Folklorist Jo Kerrigan, has urged farmers to steer clear of fairy forts to avoid evoking the wrath of their other-worldly occupants
Environment
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed the number of new outbreaks of fireblight to-date in 2024.
In 2024, there have been over 1.4m crataegus (hawthorn/whitethorn) plants imported into Ireland from within the European Union (EU).
Farmers in tranche 1 of the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) have less than a month to...
Concerns have been raised by environmental organisations over the risk of fireblight from hawthorn imports for ACRES.
In 2023 to-date, there have been over one million plants of whitethorn/hawthorn imported into Ireland from within the EU.
