Agri Politics
Seanad election: Who's in contention on the Agricultural Panel?
The excitement and drama of the 2024 General Election may be behind us at this point, but the Seanad election...
Oireachtas
Rural Life
Agriculture appeals bill passed by both houses of Oireachtas
The Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024 has been passed by both houses of the Oireachtas, after being considered by the...
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Events to showcase options for life beyond the farm
Two events are set to take place in the north-west to showcase the positives of the Irish dairy sector and...
Agri Politics
Oireachtas Ag committee to meet McConalogue on straw measure
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, is scheduled to meet with TDs and senators from the...
Rural Life
Farm Assist: Calls for income disregard for land designations
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection has been told that farmers with a high proportion of land under designation...
Rural Life
Farm Assist: Pillar II schemes 'should be disregarded in totality'
The Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection has been told that payments from farm schemes under Pillar II of the Common...
Rural Life
No-one should pay more because they 'pay in cash' - Age Action
The charity Age Action has told politicians that access to cash is about being able to “buy something in a...
Environment
State is setting farmers and water quality 'up to fail' - An Taisce
The “systemic failure” by the state to implement a tailored catchment-based approach, based on the best available science, is setting...
Rural Life
Carbon tax impacts rural households worse - budget report
The carbon tax liability of rural households is higher than it is for urban households, according to an analysis of...
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Transform your calf rearing with a JFC automatic feeder
We recently caught up with Richard Lowe who is a dairy farmer from Adare, Co. Limerick, who shares how the...
Agri-Business
Teagasc spent €2.2m in consultancy costs in 2022
Teagasc spent more than €2.2 million last year in consultancy costs and a further €127,000 on legal costs and settlements,...
Forestry
Senator warns that land could be an issue for new forestry programme
The government’s new €1.3 billion Forestry Programme could face stiff competition for land because of the Nitrates Action Programme, a...
Environment
Government will monitor turf usage under new wildlife bill
A new wildlife bill will achieve a “greater area of high nature value peatlands protection across a much wider geographic...
Environment
Citizens' Assembly chair: Oireachtas must act on biodiversity loss
The chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, Dr. Aoibhinn Nà Shúilleabháin, has called on legislators to create new...
biodiversity
Citizens' assembly on biodiversity to discuss final recommendations
The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss will hold an additional meeting this weekend to discuss its final recommendations. Members of...
Agri-Business
Minister to bring water abstraction bill before Oireachtas
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is set to bring legislation on water abstraction before the Oireachtas in...
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Farmer Wellbeing Board offers support to those in need
“A picture paints a thousand words” – this well-known phrase perfectly captures the essence of the Farmer Wellbeing Board, designed...
Agri Politics
Nitrates Action Programme still draws concern about farm incomes - TD
The Joint Oireachtas Agriculture Committee met this week with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue and his...
Environment
Seanad passes climate bill
The Seanad has today (Friday, July 9), after nearly six hours of debate, passed the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
Rural Life
'Government will not tell people that they cannot burn their own turf in their own fire'
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has given his assurances to independent TD Michael Healy-Rae that the government “will certainly not tell people...
Agri Politics
UK retailer claims Irish meat is 'sold at loss' to price it's bought for
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine heard from Christine Tacon, the UK’s Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA)...