THE decision by the state owned forestry company Coillte ‘to act as an agent on behalf of foreign and national investment funds’ to acquire 30,000 acres...
A lot of private forest owners have harvested their trees and reaped the reward of strong timber prices in the last year, and you may be...
ANOTHER warning has been issued this week about the implications for the Irish timber industry unless the licence backlog for the felling of trees is resolved...
FORESTRY work in many parts of Galway and the western region is grinding to a halt with mills facing into a crisis due to lack of...
BY NOEL KENNEDY SINCE 2009, farmers who planted eligible land have been able to claim the Basic Payment (BPS) on the planted land and so make...
ONE of the country’s biggest sawmills – the Murray Timber Group in Ballygar – are predicting major growth in the industry over the coming years. The...
Galway forestry owners, timber contractors and hauliers will over €500 million per annum by 2035, according to a new timber trade association launched this week. With...
OVER 750 farmers in Co. Galway received forest premium payments of over €3.1 million in 2017, according to the latest figures released by the Dept. of...
