“Real, comprehensive support for the organic-farming sector; ambitious, impactful eco-schemes; and a new attitude to scrub and tree integration into...
13:21pm
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being urged to prioritise new entrants to the organics sector, rather...
June 23, 2021
The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will resume its discussion on organic farming this week. Taking place...
June 21, 2021
The chairman of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Organic Project team, Nigel Renaghan, is calling for the Organic Farming Scheme...
June 15, 2021
Organic farming will take centre stage at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food, and the Marine’s meeting today (Tuesday,...
Minister of State Pippa Hackett has today (Monday, May 31) announced the opening of the first tranche in 2021 of...
May 31, 2021
Teagasc has appointed a new organic farming specialist who will commences the role today (Monday, May 24). Joe Kelleher previously...
May 24, 2021
The fact that the Organic Farming Scheme has been “substantially undersubscribed” in the latest call for applications “must serve as...
May 11, 2021
317 applications were received in respect of the 2021 Organic Farming Scheme, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine...
May 5, 2021
Farmers who are considering going organic have just one more week to apply for the Organic Farming Scheme, with the...
April 23, 2021
There are “several major obstacles to overcome with regard to supply, consumer demand and public policy” to enable the dairy...
April 8, 2021
When John and Fiona Curran bought their 26ac sheep and suckler farm in Fordstown, Co. Meath, in 2002, people thought...
April 3, 2021
Small farms can either convert to producing organically in the future “or they disappear from the market”, as is the...
March 30, 2021
The European Commission has today (Thursday, March 25) presented an action plan for the development of organic production. The action...
March 25, 2021
Hailing from the county of Westmeath – Patrick Oxley is running a substantial organic farm consisting of both a suckler-to-beef and...
December 12, 2020
The current area under organic production in Ireland is to be increased to 350,000ha by 2030, according to a new...
December 10, 2020
Over 1,000 people, including some 150 from oversees, tuned into an organic farming conference that was broadcast from Co. Leitrim...
November 16, 2020
The BioFarm 2020 conference is moving online this year. The event which has proved massively popular over the past few...
September 24, 2020
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