Horticulture
German proposal on horticulture could end Irish industry - senator
A Fine Gael senator has written to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue ahead of a...
Horticulture
A Fine Gael senator has written to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue ahead of a...
Environment
Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has recently sent a written communication to Bord na Móna calling on the organisation...
Environment
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called on the government to act to keep all turf in the ground where...
Rural Life
Concerns are emerging around the possible use of Just Transition funding to import peat, according to independent TD for Laois-Offaly,...
Rural Life
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has confirmed that a ban on the sale of turf will...
Rural Life
The proposed ban on the sale and gifting of turf, which was recently suggested by the environment minister, Eamon Ryan,...
Agri-Business
Tipperary Sinn Féin TD, Martin Browne has questions about the willingness of Bord na Móna (BNM) to assist professional growers...
Horticulture
“Rural jobs and the Irish mushroom sector itself are now at risk if the peat issue is not resolved,” a...
Horticulture
The Kildare Growers group has called for emergency legislation to allow harvesting of indigenous peat for horticulture as the war...
Agri Politics
An independent TD has called on the government to temporarily suspend the current system of regulation that is preventing the...
Rural Life
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Deputy Carol Nolan has called on the government to reassess its rejection of the working group...
Horticulture
The issue of the availability of peat to the Irish horticultural sector was raised once again this week in the...
Horticulture
Three ministers have drawn the ire of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine by not accepting...
Environment
Teagasc has stated that the further drainage of peat or high organic content soils “cannot be justified” as it is...
Horticulture
Aontú has called on the government to take action over the worsening peat crisis which the party said is putting...
Horticulture
The government dismissed a request to reconsider its previous rejection of a phased reduction in the use of peat by...
Horticulture
The chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Jackie Cahill, has said that the importation...
Horticulture
Growing Media Ireland (GMI) has said actions proposed by the government to support horticultural growers “will cause environmental catastrophe and...