biodiversity
Legal protection for hedgerows to be sought at Oireachtas committee
Hedgerows, carbon, and biodiversity are up for discussion at today’s (Wednesday, February 9) meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
biodiversity
Hedgerows, carbon, and biodiversity are up for discussion at today’s (Wednesday, February 9) meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
Agri-Business
Glanbia Ireland and its farm family suppliers have achieved their ‘Operation Biodiversity’ target of planting 100,000 native trees and hedgerow...
Environment
Understanding hedges better is the theme for Hedgerow Week 2021 which starts today (Friday, December 3) and will run until...
Beef
After much speculation among farmers, Teagasc has moved to outline the “inventory carbon values” for Irish hedgerows and grasslands. In...
Rural Life
A Co. Limerick farmer has stopped spilling his herd’s milk into a slurry tank in a dispute over a hedgerow...
Rural Life
Clonakilty District Court Judge James McNulty expressed surprise at what he termed the “lamentable ignorance” of a Clonakilty landowner in...
biodiversity
At a recent sitting of Macroom District Court, Judge James McNulty issued fines totalling €4,000 on two neighbouring landowners from...
Rural Life
The removal of 400m of mature hedgerow during bird nesting season has led to a conviction and fine for a...
Rural Life
A Co. Galway farmer has been convicted and fined €3,000 for destroying 755m of hedgerows and 0.7ac of scrub woodland...
Rural Life
A Co. Mayo farmer has been fined €4,000 and received a 20% penalty to his farm payments for the destruction...
Environment
A Laois man has been convicted and fined €6,000 for the destruction of hedgerow vegetation and trees containing birds’ nests,...
CAP / Schemes
As hedge-cutting starts up once more across the Irish countryside, farmers who avail of the Nitrates Derogation should take heed...
Rural Life
A farmer from Offaly was convicted and fined for destroying a hedgerow during the bird nesting season over the summer...
Environment
A new national organisation, Hedgerows Ireland, is calling for specific legislation to be introduced to protect ‘Ireland’s rainforests’ – native...
Agri Politics
A debate and action on “how to compensate farmers for all the carbon that they already sequester in their farms”...
Environment
The joint winners of the Teagasc Hedge Cutting Competition for 2019 have been announced, with the joint top prizes going...
Environment
A “pilot scheme in relation to on-farm carbon trading to reward farmers for the public goods they are providing” is...
Environment
The importance of hedgerows to the Irish countryside – and the benefits they bring – are being highlighted over the...