THE IFA is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, over Department proposals to delay this year’s farm scheme payments by up to...
EXCESSIVE paperwork and unreasonable conditions could put off a cohort of farmers from joining the new suckler cow scheme which starts this year, a farm leader...
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...
A GREATER Garda presence in rural areas along with changes in the law to protect landowners from trespassers has been called for this week by a...
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...
TOO many people residing in rural areas are living in ‘an uneasy state of fear’ following the savage attack last month on a retired farmer in...
‘ON, yer bike, and off to Dublin in the green, in the green’ – that was the motto last weekend of Ardrahan’s Pat Murphy who cycled...
BY PAT MURPHY A WARNING has been issued that the latest CAP proposals – unveiled last week – could turn the West of Ireland and parts...
