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Aurivo fined €350,000 for environmental breaches
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Sorcha Crowley reports from Sligo Circuit Criminal Court, where Aurivo Dairy Ingredients was fined in relation to foul odours from its Ballaghaderreen plant and discharge to a nearby river.
27 March 2025 News
Landowner instructed to remove river crossing by Inland Fisheries Ireland
The IFI became aware of a bridge at Duff River, which was made of three metal culverts, which were blocking the passage of fish.
26 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Insufficient evidence to support multispecies swards - Teagasc report
A new report on Teagasc research into grass and white clover and multispecies has been published, writes Aidan Brennan.
Farm Tech Talk: beef boom, lambing and positive water quality
The ongoing positivity in the beef trade, an improvement in water quality results and lambing 2025 all feature on this week's Farm Tech Talk.
21 March 2025 News
Tirlán meets Minister for Agriculture on retaining derogation
Tirlán chair John Murphy said a range of issues were discussed, the most important of which was the retention of the derogation.
20 March 2025 News
Editorial: building on nitrates success
We need to fix soil fertility, because this allows better use of all nutrients on farms.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Farmers recognised for reduction in nitrates levels in rivers
The EPA's early insights nitrogen indicator for 2024 shows that nitrogen levels in rivers have reduced in 2024 compared with 2023.
19 March 2025 News
Nitrates levels in rivers reduced in 2024, EPA data shows
The EPA has looked at data from 20 river monitoring sites up to the end of December 2024.
19 March 2025 News
NIEA appoints new Lough Neagh inspectors
The NI Environment Agency has recruited across a range of roles linked to Lough Neagh.
12 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Additional slurry storage can only be a win for the environment
Barriers to creating additional slurry storage need to be removed, not just for the sake of farmers and animal’s welfare, but for the sake of the environment.
12 March 2025 Climate and environment
End of the suckling era on Duggan farm in Portlaw
The Teagasc spring grass walk on the Duggan family farm in Portlaw in Co Waterford.
9 March 2025 Breeding & health
Eight significant nitrates changes signed in to law
The changes come in to play immediately and include new fertiliser limits, changes to animal excretion rates, mandatory inclusion of clover in reseeds and the phasing out of unprotected urea.
5 March 2025 News