THE Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, and his Department, may be on ‘sticky legal ground’ if they intend to pursue a policy of clawbacks in relation...
HARD pressed planners, advisors and farmers need an extra week to try and get their GLAS application forms submitted, according to Connacht IFA Regional Chairman, Tom...
FARMERS are becoming wary of joining any scheme for fear that monies that they receive from the Department of Agriculture may be recouped. It has emerged...
SMALLER farmers in the West of Ireland have been ‘hammered’ in the new Organic Farmers Scheme announced last week by Minister of State, Tom Hayes. According...
FURTHER extensions of the closing dates for the Basic Payments and GLAS schemes will be needed to free-up the bottleneck in applications, a leading farm representative...
A SLOW Spring has sprung to life since the Easter Weekend with thousands of acres of corn being sown across Co. Galway in close to ideal...
A computer glitch could mean that farmers could have difficulties in making their application for the new Basic Payment Scheme – formerly the Single Farm Payment....
AGRICULTURE Minister, Simon Coveney, has been accused of using ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’ with the introduction of new regulations in relation to the bovine...
