Rural Life
Organic Trust and Macra, though the latter's Make a Moove initiative, have teamed up to support mental health among the farming community.
Agri-Business
The National Organic Food Fair, which is organised by the Organic Trust, will take place on August 31 and September 1.
Farmers considering converting their enterprise to organic farming are being invited to attend an event in Co. Monaghan later this month.
Letters have been sent to the Ceann Comhairle and an Oireachtas committee following a row in the Dáil after a TD was called an organic farmer.
Organic farming was specifically mentioned in two of the 154 recommendations in the Citizens' Assembly's report on Biodiversity Loss.
An 'organic action plan' and a permanent ' policy council' is needed to increase the number of farmers certified as organic in Ireland.
Many farmers are already on their way to organic, with education needed to get them all the way there, according to the Organic Trust CEO.
Demand for organic produce in Ireland is currently outweighing supply, a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture has heard.
