Rural Life
Video: 'I try and manage the hedges to help the pollinators'
Tipperary dairy farmer, John Fogarty, discusses the management of hedgerows to help pollinators on farms in a new video from Tipperary...
Hedgerows
N.Ireland
Report shows hedgehog numbers plummet by 50% in British countryside
A wildlife campaign is urging farmers to think of their prickly friends, as a new report shows hedgehog levels have plummeted...
Sponsored
Watch: Rugby legend on tackling resistant worms in cattle
At this time of year, many farmers are organising their animal health plan and tackling resistant worms to cover their...
CAP / Schemes
Sinn Fein calls for extension to GLAS hedgerow period
Sinn Fein’s Agriculture Spokesman Martin Kenny has called on the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed to extend the GLAS hedgerow...
Environment
Meath farmer fined for illegal destruction of hedgerows
A cattle farmer from Co. Meath has been fined a total of €3,500 for the destruction of hedgerows during the bird nesting...
Environment
Great advice on managing hedgerows as hedgecutting season opens this week
The hedgecutting season opens this week and runs from September 1 until March 1, allowing farmers to manage hedges around...
Environment
10 ways to boost a beef farm's natural biodiversity
Farmers’ actions play a key role in maintaining and managing existing natural habitats while there are opportunities to create new...
Agri-Business
GLAS cuts to hit low-income cattle and sheep farmers - ICSA
The removal of one of the most popular measures under GLAS has been criticised by the ICSA. According to the...
Environment
Hedge cutting season about to start (some great Teagasc advice)
There is less than a week to go to the hedge cutting season, which runs from September 1 up until March 1....
Environment
One month to hedge cutting deadline - review findings due
It’s only one month until the hedge cutting season begins on August 31 and the Minister for Arts, Heritage and...
Environment
Possible UK derogation to allow for August hedge cutting
The Department of Agriculture in the UK is said to be working on a derogation that would allow hedge cutting...
Environment
Remove hedgerows, stone walls and ditches at your peril
Failure to comply with hedgerow rules, including replacing them when they are removed, will result in cross compliance penalties, according...
Machinery
New range of hedgecutters hit Irish market
Twose of Tiverton, manufacturers of Hedgecutters, Rollers, Yardscrapers and Front Presses will introduce their new 2014 Red range of Hedgecutters...