Environment
Environmental lobby says CAP won’t deliver for the environment
European environmental lobbyists have slammed changes to the delegated acts which it says diminish the reforms ability to impact on...
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Video: Rural Development Programme and the environment
Rural Development Programmes (RDP) can be important instruments for improving the delivery of environmental services throughout Europe. The film presents...
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‘Report Offers Pylon-Free Alternative to Grid 25’
A new report commissioned by ReThink pylons claims to offer an Alternative to EirGrid’s Grid 25 project. A key element of...
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Managing Recent Storm Damage in Forests
Teagasc, in conjunction with Coillte and the Forest Service, DAFM, is organising two important demonstrations on windblow clearance and forest...
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Calendar farming based on best science
“This is the reality, this is the science, the directive is based on science” was the message from Jack Nolan...
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Environment strategy key as dairy sector expands, minister
Environmental strategies are in place to deal with the inevitable increase in greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on the...
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Key guide to new Nitrates derogation published
Ireland’s application for a renewal of its derogation under the Nitrates Directive has completed all stages of the approval process...
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Fodder warning still in place
The improvement in weather and ground conditions has been welcomed by Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, but he also warned...
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Ireland's forestry to be evaluated
Ireland’s forestry programme for 2014-2020 is to be evaluated. The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
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Key regulations when transferring slurry between farms
With the weather up to recently making slurry spreading near impossible, many farmers who had slurry tanks at full capacity...
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AHI stress vital few BVD PIs remain on farm
“Good progress has been made by the end of the first year of the compulsory phase of the BVD eradication...
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It’s time to get serious about grass
COMMENT: It’s hard to believe that March is now with us and the prospect of getting stock out to grass...
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Level of the Shannon expected to stabilise or fall, as flood risk study continues
The level of the Shannon is expected to stabilise or fall marginally over the next five days. That is according...
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Low uptake of rainwater harvesting scheme
Just 94 farmers applied to the Department of Agriculture‘s Rainwater Harvesting Scheme by the closing date of 31 December 2013....
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Latest thinking on IBR vaccination programmes
According to Zoetis veterinarian Mary Newman, between 70 and 80 per cent of Irish cattle herds are infected with IBR. “This...
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Managing hedgerows to benefit wildlife as deadline looms
More than 450,000ha or 6.4 per cent of the country is covered by hedgerows, individual trees and small woodland patches...
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Genetic clues to TB-resistant cattle
Scientists have identified genetic traits in cattle that might allow farmers to breed livestock with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis...
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Report critical of EirGrid plans
The case for EirGrid’s Grid 25, based on a need to upgrade the transmission system to accommodate additional wind generation and...
