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Making farming attractive – and sustainable - for future generations
Brendan Dunford
While the European Commission’s new 2040 vision for Agriculture reads well, failure to implement it may bring worrying consequences on a number of fronts.
Making farming attractive – and sustainable - for future generations
Omex opens liquid nitrogen distribution facility in Cork
5 March 2025 News
Omex opens liquid nitrogen distribution facility in Cork
Omex opened its new liquid nitrogen distribution facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork on 5 March.
Minister for Agriculture downplays rewetting meeting
5 March 2025 News
Minister for Agriculture downplays rewetting meeting
"When the time comes to make decisions, all the key stakeholders will be consulted properly by me,” the Minister pledged.
Birds spotted at ACRES wader scrape within a week
The ACRES Breifne CP zone was set up on Seamus Cornyn's farm in Drumshanbo with the aim of providing optimal feeding habitat for species such as snipe, lapwing, redshank, and curlew.
5 March 2025 Climate and environment
Climate change boss critical of farmer exclusion from rewetting meeting
Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council Marie Donnelly has said farmers must be involved in - and compensated for - rewetting of their land.
4 March 2025 Climate and environment
€1bn investment in forestry and rewetting needed to reduce emissions - CCAC
The joint report with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council revealed that Ireland is the worst performing country in the EU in terms of CO2 equivalent emissions per person.
4 March 2025 Climate and environment
IFA calls emergency meeting on peat soil threats
Farmers from across the country are set to gather on Thursday 6 March at 8pm in the Hodson Bay Hotel in Athlone.
1 March 2025 News
New €500,000 partnership for nature restoration
The project, announced at the Lions Club National Convention in Tullamore on Friday, has been allocated €250,000 per year will be allocated for 2025 and 2026, to support restoration projects.
28 February 2025 Climate and environment
Farmers could be paid lump sums to rewet land
There are 80,000ha to be rewetted or extensified over the coming years under contracts agreed over a 15-year timeframe.
26 February 2025 News
Getting an extra €975/ha to graze between the trees
A farmer in Donegal is pairing up Organic Farming Scheme payments with agro-forestry premia, writes Noel Bardon.
26 February 2025 Climate and environment
Plan to cut farming on 80,000ha of peat soils
The extensification could involve rewetting, reducing stocking rates, fertiliser cuts or the raising of drains.
26 February 2025 Climate and environment
New project to explore value of biodiversity actions on farms
The ‘Farming Resilience and Management through Natural Capital’ project received over €325,000 in the 2024 research call to run over two years starting this March.
26 February 2025 Climate and environment