Tillage
Evidence that sewage treatment affecting water quality - IGGG
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has claimed that it has clear evidence confirming that sewage treatment plants are adding...
Tillage
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has claimed that it has clear evidence confirming that sewage treatment plants are adding...
Environment
The Agriculture Water Quality Working Group, chaired by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM), has agreed that the...
Environment
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil that his “biggest concern for Irish farmers and our food industry is the possibility...
Dairy
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has been urged to deliver on flexibilities on the nitrates derogation...
Dairy
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney has called for a “significant collective effort” to help farmers with a...
Agri Politics
A TD has claimed in the Dáil that he is stunned that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine...
Dairy
Teagasc has said that the impact on dairy farmer profits from the reduction in the nitrates derogation is “not an...
Dairy News
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) has called for a clear and concrete nitrates action plan from the European Commission for the...
Agri-Business
The president of Macra, Elaine Houlihan has said that all future decisions on Ireland’s nitrates derogation must be led by...
Agri-Business
European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness is confident that Ireland can maintain a nitrates derogation threshold of 220kg of organic nitrogen (N)/ha....
Environment
Nitrates derogation was one of the issues recently discussed at the ‘Catchment Science 2023’ conference, held in Wexford. The conference...
Dairy
Following a meeting with the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius today (Thursday, November 23), the Irish Creamery Milk...
Dairy News
The government is currently discussing the future of Ireland’s nitrates derogation with the European Commissioner for the Environment in Dublin....
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has asked Teagasc to establish a separate nutrient excretion rate for...
Dairy
Irish farmers who avail of the nitrates derogation and who farm at organic nitrogen (N) stocking rates over 220kgN/ha will...
Agri-Business
The leader of the Rural Independent Group of TDs is calling on the Taoiseach to secure a two-year extension for...
Agri Politics
A Co. Galway dairy farmer has told a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine,...
Agri Politics
Some EU member states view Ireland’s nitrates derogation as a “competitive advantage” for farmers here, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar....