PRESSURE is mounting this week on Agriculture Minister, Charlie McConalogue, to make changes in the new ACRES environmental scheme which would enable more farmers to get...
THE ‘big issue’ with West of Ireland farmers – highlighted at three regional IFA meetings in Galway last week – continues to be the new ACRES...
THE new ACRES environmental scheme came in for scathing criticism at a Connacht IFA meeting this week with farm representatives describing it as being ‘choked with...
THE new ACRES (Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme) due to be rolled out on January 1 next is ‘restrictive and complicated’ according to West of Ireland...
