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Action plan on way for reducing age at slaughter
Noel Bardon
The Climate Action Plan targets an average slaughter age of 24 to 25 months for prime cattle by 2025.
Action plan on way for reducing age at slaughter
Managing varieties not crops to target issues
15 April 2025 Crop protection
Managing varieties not crops to target issues
It is important to know the strengths and weaknesses of the varieties that you are growing, writes Siobhán Walsh.
GAEC 2 debacle highlights leadership issues in agriculture
9 April 2025 Climate and environment
GAEC 2 debacle highlights leadership issues in agriculture
Delaying GAEC 2 or suggesting it can be ignored will just result in more hardship for farmers, writes Ray O Foghlú.
Corncrake farmers receive €400,000 as numbers rise
Corncrakes are birds of low-intensity grasslands so many farmers have opted to reduce stocking density and levels of grass production while also allowing predator control to occur on their lands.
9 April 2025 Climate and environment
Concerns over re-use of ACRES scorecards
The INHFA has warned that ACRES scorecards cannot become a 'stick to beat farmers with' into the future.
9 April 2025 News
Uisce Éireann fined over €9,000 for sewage pollution in Cavan
The water utility was found to have committed a water pollution breach at a court case in Cavan District Court on 7 February.
9 April 2025 Climate and environment
Nutrient trading scheme recommended in new report
A Teagasc-led report has raised the idea of introducing a nutrient rights trading scheme, similar to emissions trading schemes, as a route that could improve water quality.
7 April 2025 Climate and environment
Minister insists GAEC 2 rules are not a land designation
Minister Heydon said that if a farmer believes that a land parcel has been incorrectly included in the standard, they can appeal that decision to the Department of Agriculture.
6 April 2025 Climate and environment
Peer support for a tough transition in Co Tyrone
Bronagh O’Kane faces many challenges in her move towards a more regenerative farming system, but the support of her farming peers helps keep her on-track, writes Brendan Dunford.
2 April 2025 Climate and environment
Farm emissions estimates cut by 7%
Emissions had been previously overstated due their not being sufficient research to generate emissions estimates that accurately reflected Irish farming.
2 April 2025 Climate and environment
West Clare farmer rewets peatland with county council
In the project, a blanket bog - home to two rare and protected birds, the merlin and hen harrier - is being rewetted to provide a wildlife sanctuary for rare habitats and species of concern.
2 April 2025 Climate and environment
‘Guts of a year’ to draw up Nature Restoration Law plan
There is just one year to set out how Ireland will meet the targets laid out in the EU Nature Restoration Law.
26 March 2025 Climate and environment