STORM Desmond that raged from last Friday evening through to the early hours of Sunday morning, brought one of the most concentrated periods of rainfall to...
THE flooding of last weekend with its Super Saturday downpour is now being rated by many farmers as worse than the flood event of November, 2009,...
OVER 1,000 farmers in Co. Galway are still waiting for the first round of their BPS (Basic Payments Scheme) money, according to figures provided to Fianna...
COMMENT BY FRANCIS FARRAGHER IT has been an awful week for the Irish Farmers’ Association – make no mistake about it – not for the ordinary...
PRESSURE is being put on Heritage Minister, Heathere Humphreys, to put in place a specific scheme for farmers who face severe restrictions due to designation and...
A GALWAY based company has a new non-antibiotic product in the pipeline that could represent a major breakthrough in the treatment of bovine mastitis –virtually eliminating...
FARMERS on designated lands in different parts of Galway last week met with Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Minister, Heather Humphreys, in an effort to ‘improve their...
OVER 20,000 farmers are still waiting for their money under the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) and the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) due to what have...
