biodiversity
IFA land designation team calls for more farmer funding
The team within the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) that is responsible for representing its members on designated lands has called...
Land designations
Rural Life
Land designation issue highlighted to minister at INHFA AGM
The issue of land designation and the restrictions for farmers in effected areas was a major point of concern at...
Property
Designated land: Call for fund to offset devaluation
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) is calling on the state to establish a fund that will top...
Video
Farmland Episode 6 2022
On this episode of Farmland, beef journalist Breifne O’Brien sits down with Willie Boland of Liffey Mills to discuss how...
Beef
Farmland: Meal markets and land designation funding
This week’s episode of Farmland, which will be broadcast tomorrow (Tuesday, May 10), hears from an industry stakeholder with advice...
Environment
Call for independent assessment of value loss on designated land
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that existing payment arrangements and the proposals in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)...
Agri Politics
Greater land designation 'would have significant impact on young farmers' ability to farm'
Macra na Feirme appeared before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and the Marine today (Tuesday, April 21) to discuss...
Rural Life
NPWS publishes list of possible designated land schemes for next CAP
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has formally published a document outlining possible measures for which farmers on designated...
Agri Politics
INHFA president highlights 'flawed' designations policy to minister
The AGM of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) was held last Friday (November 27) over an online...
Environment
Galway receives largest portion of ANC payments
Galway has topped the list for the largest portion of payments under the 2020 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) scheme....
Rural Life
INHFA tells Minister Noonan land designations are 'flawed policy'
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) has met with Minister of State Malcolm Noonan to further discuss the...
Environment
Noonan: 'I did not make definitive statement about further designations'
Minister of State with responsibility for heritage Malcolm Noonan has moved to contradict claims made by the Irish Farmers’ Association...
Environment
IFA 'gets commitment' of no plans for more land designations
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) says that it has been given a “clear and unequivocal commitment” that there are no...
Environment
'Government has made a pig's ear out of land designations' - Harkin
Independent TD Marian Harkin has said that “the government needs to understand what implications land designations could have” in years...
Environment
IFA 'emphatically rejects' land designations - Cullinan
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that it has “emphatically rejected” land designations, and will tell the Minister of...
Environment
Commission refers Ireland to EU Court of Justice over land designation
The European Commission has referred Ireland to the EU Court of Justice over what it calls the country’s failure to...
Agri Politics
'The first rule is not to blaggard the man that owns the land in this country'
The chairman of the Shannon Action Committee, Charlie Killeen, is calling for a permanent payment in return for the permanent...
Agri Politics
'It is the biggest land grab since Cromwell'
Charlie Killeen, a farmer from Meelick, Co. Galway – an area of picturesque rural Irish landscape along the River Shannon...