Environment
Methane reduction target would 'reduce output and cost jobs' - IFA
Proposals from Fine Gael to introduce a reduction target for methane would be “damaging to Ireland’s rural economy and global...
Thomas Cooney
Agri Politics
Cooney puts name forward for IFA treasurer role
The Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA’s) Environmental Committee chairman, Thomas Cooney, has confirmed he will be putting his name forward for...
Environment
Smart Farming announces 2019 cost savings results
The voluntary resource management programme – Smart Farming – has announced its 2019 results with average cost savings on participating farms...
Agri Politics
IFA calls on Creed to 'veto' Mercosur deal
A farm-lobby group’s environmental chairman has today called for the Irish Government to veto the looming EU/Mercosur deal if it...
Agri-Business
IFA call for meeting with Creed on derogation proposals
A meeting to progress proposals for the introduction of a ‘Sustainability Development Programme’ has been called for as part of...
Environment
Processors and co-ops 'cap on production' recommendation comes under fire
A recent report from the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has included a recommendation to introduce “short-term carbon budgets”....
Environment
IFA calls for VAT exemption on low emission slurry equipment
The environmental chairman of a farm lobby group has called for all farmer investments in the Low Emission Slurry Spreading...
Environment
Calls made for support scheme on lime, urea and aeration
The environmental chairman of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called for a farmer support scheme to encourage farmers to...
Environment
Derogation: 'We can't have a repeat of what happened in Holland'
An industry expert has warned that Ireland cannot have “a short, sharp cut off with a nitrate derogation” like what happened...
Environment
IFA to hold regional nitrates derogation meetings
Following the decision by the Department of Agriculture to conduct an early review of the terms of the nitrates derogations,...
Agri-Business
Climate emergency declaration described as 'a wake-up call'
The Dáil’s declaration of a climate emergency yesterday, Thursday, May 9, has been described as “a wake-up call following a...
Environment
Silverware for Smart Farming at RDS Spring Awards
The Smart Farming Programme Leader has expressed his delight following Smart Farming’s receipt of the inaugural Talamh Agri-Innovation Award at...
Agri-Business
Greenways development approach 'needs review' - IFA
The recent publication of research by Teagasc and NUI Galway has been said to highlight the need to review the...
Environment
'We need to make an example of people who are illegally dumping'
Calls have been made for the Government to publish a list of the illegal dumping prosecutions that have been made. Speaking...
Environment
Irish agriculture 'is the only sector' with a plan on carbon emissions
With regards to climate action, agriculture is a sector that “has a plan”, but the Government needs to “put in the...
Agri Politics
Climate action report: 'A victory for common sense'
The support in the new report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action (released today, Thursday, March 28) for...
Rural Life
Action plan needed against post-Christmas dumping surge
Local authorities must develop plans to address the annual increase in countryside dumping that takes place post-Christmas, a farm-lobby group’s environmental...
Environment
Waste water issues 'continue to damage our water quality'
Raw sewage from the equivalent of 88,000 people in 38 towns and villages is still flowing into our rivers and...