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Smart Farming announces 2019 cost savings results

October 17, 2019

The voluntary resource management programme – Smart Farming – has announced its 2019 results with average cost savings on participating farms of €6,336. The…

IFA calls on Creed to ‘veto’ Mercosur deal

June 27, 2019

Agri Politics

A farm-lobby group’s environmental chairman has today called for the Irish Government to veto the looming EU/Mercosur deal if it favours South American…

IFA call for meeting with Creed on derogation proposals

June 11, 2019

Agri-Business

A meeting to progress proposals for the introduction of a ‘Sustainability Development Programme’ has been called for as part of a lobby group’s…

Processors and co-ops ‘cap on production’ recommendation comes under fire

June 6, 2019

Environment

A recent report from the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has included a recommendation to introduce “short-term carbon budgets”. The Irish Farmers’…

IFA calls for VAT exemption on low emission slurry equipment

May 24, 2019

Environment

The environmental chairman of a farm lobby group has called for all farmer investments in the Low Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS) scheme to…

Calls made for support scheme on lime, urea and aeration

May 23, 2019

Environment

The environmental chairman of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called for a farmer support scheme to encourage farmers to undertake soil conditioning…

Derogation: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened in Holland’

May 22, 2019

Environment

An industry expert has warned that Ireland cannot have “a short, sharp cut off with a nitrate derogation” like what happened in Holland in…

IFA to hold regional nitrates derogation meetings

May 13, 2019

Environment

Following the decision by the Department of Agriculture to conduct an early review of the terms of the nitrates derogations, the Irish Farmers’…

Climate emergency declaration described as ‘a wake-up call’

May 10, 2019

Agri-Business

The Dáil’s declaration of a climate emergency yesterday, Thursday, May 9, has been described as “a wake-up call following a decade of climate…

Silverware for Smart Farming at RDS Spring Awards

April 25, 2019

Environment

The Smart Farming Programme Leader has expressed his delight following Smart Farming’s receipt of the inaugural Talamh Agri-Innovation Award at the RDS Spring…

Greenways development approach ‘needs review’ – IFA

April 9, 2019

Agri-Business

The recent publication of research by Teagasc and NUI Galway has been said to highlight the need to review the current approach to…

‘We need to make an example of people who are illegally dumping’

April 8, 2019

Environment

Calls have been made for the Government to publish a list of the illegal dumping prosecutions that have been made. Speaking on the latest…

Irish agriculture ‘is the only sector’ with a plan on carbon emissions

April 8, 2019

Environment

With regards to climate action, agriculture is a sector that “has a plan”, but the Government needs to “put in the investment”. This is…

Climate action report: ‘A victory for common sense’

March 28, 2019

Agri Politics

The support in the new report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action (released today, Thursday, March 28) for the Teagasc ‘Climate…

Action plan needed against post-Christmas dumping surge

December 24, 2018

Rural Life

Local authorities must develop plans to address the annual increase in countryside dumping that takes place post-Christmas, a farm-lobby group’s environmental chairman has pointed…