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Dairy
Farmers told to call out neighbours who let sector down
James Hanly
“I’ll be home in Limerick on Christmas Day and I guarantee you I’ll see a [slurry] tank running around the place,” the director of DII has said.
13 December 2024 Climate and environment
McCarthy to lead €8.5m investment in methane-reducing additives
GlasPort Bio is a Galway biotechnology company which has developed the methane-reducing feed additive RumenGlas and methane-reducing slurry additive GasAbate.
11 December 2024 Letters
Letter: why we all need to bat for Bovaer
There is little low-hanging fruit when it comes to reducing agricultural emissions, writes Niall Monaghan.
Teagasc leading sustainable sheep breeding project
The project will be done with the support of Sheep Ireland and has received funding from the Department of Agriculture under the Green ERAHUB funding programme.
6 December 2024 News
Making progress on emissions reduction
Karl Richards, head of the Climate Centre, Teagasc, says that progress has been made in cutting carbon emissions on farms.
4 December 2024 Signpost Programme
Methane emissions being over-estimated by 9% - Teagasc
Dr Hazel Costigan discussed methane-reducing feed additives at Teagasc's Signpost conference in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, on Thursday.
27 November 2024 News
UK co-op to trial methane-reducing feed additives
The joint initiative, called the ‘FarmAhead Customer Partnership’, will see dairy farmers trialling Bovaer, a feed additive that reduces enteric methane emissions from cows.
27 November 2024 News
Denmark announces world’s first agricultural emissions tax
The new tax became a topic of discussion during the Irish Farmers Journal Dairy Day on Thursday between New Zealand dairy farmer Corrigan Sowman and Dutch dairy farmer Auko Sikkenga.
24 November 2024 News
Methane emissions being over-estimated by 9% - Teagasc
Dr Hazel Costigan discussed methane-reducing feed additives at Teagasc's Signpost conference in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, on Thursday.
23 November 2024 News
Farmer Writes: World Dairy Summit and reseeding
We were forced to use various methods to reseed due to some of the old turf never having seen a plough in its life, but I have decided I am a cowman, not a ploughman.
3 November 2024 Farmer Writes
Editorial: can grazing adapt to climate change?
There are still only 2,700 farmers recording more than 25 weekly measurements across the year.
16 October 2024 Viewpoints
Financial risk to farming falling short of its sustainability goals
Emeritus professor of environmental policy at UCD, Frank Convery, outlined the risk to the farming sector if climate targets are missed. Noel Bardon reports.
9 October 2024 Climate and environment