FARMERS – many of them in the elderly category – who decide to sell land they had previously rented on a conacre basis, may now be...
A BREAKTHROUGH package for grain farmers who suffered huge losses due to the rains of last September is now likely to emerge following a meeting of...
GALWAY sheep farmers have been urged ‘not to miss the boat’ for the new ‘Welfare Scheme’ that will deliver an annual payment of €10 per ewe...
NEW BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) compensation payments – announced last week by the Dept. of Agriculture – should have been in place from the beginning of...
FOUR farm deaths since mid-November – and 19 in total so far, this year – has prompted a Minister of State to ask all farmers to...
THE price of farmland has declined steadily through this year with the West of Ireland the cheapest place in the country to buy land, according to...
FRUSTRATION is mounting among Galway’s grain farmers that little progress is being made in the establishment of a ‘rescue fund’ for growers who suffered massive losses...
FARMERS are being ‘nailed’ in terms of administrative costs for schemes such as GLAS and the Knowledge Transfer Scheme, according to independent West of Ireland TD,...
