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Legal: ‘do my neighbours have a duty to clean out drains?’
Contributor
A drain pipe running onto his neighbour’s land is causing one farmer much distress, writes Aisling Meehan.
7 February 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Slurry and daffodils
Drainage - a year like this throws up evidence of where the problems are.
3 January 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a brief history of land reclamation
Irish land reclamation was the war cry for the past 250 years, and I think we should mark its passing with a brief history.
The role hedgerows, trees and scrub can play in the battle to combat flooding
Dr Alan Moore of Hedgerows Ireland looks at what measures farmers can deploy to combat flooding.
3 January 2024 Opinion
SloWaters project paying farmers to slow the flow of water off their land
SloWaters has been piloting flood prevention measures on Irish farms and the project's leader maintains that these measures should now be rolled out at a wider scale.
20 December 2023 Climate and environment
80,000ha for rewetting is 'over-estimated' says Teagasc scientist
The Teagasc scientist also maintained that the carbon emissions estimates for Ireland’s farmed peatlands could be halved if revisited.
29 November 2023 News
Farmer fears as Lough Funshinagh floodwaters rise
Councillor Laurence Fallon and local farmer Padraig Beattie talk about the current situation they are faced with on the ground in south Roscommon.
8 November 2023 News
Italian mulchers key to specialist Wicklow plant hire business
Specialising in forestry management, M&S Ryan Plant Hire Ltd made the move to FAE hydraulic and PTO driven mulchers in 2017 and haven’t looked back since. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
1 November 2023 Farm machinery
Two-pronged approach to soft rush control
When controlling rushes, farmers need to take action above and below ground to get an effective kill.
11 October 2023 Northern Ireland