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Farm Tech Talk: booming beef prices, rewetting and milk solids
Jack Kennedy
The positivity in the beef trade, an update on ACRES, milk soilds and spring AI all feature on this week's Farm Tech Talk.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: past mistakes haunting Department initiatives
Farmers have lost confidence in the officials before the game has started.
12 March 2025 Dealer
Online portal is ‘stuff of nightmare’
The Department of Agriculture has shown how farmers can check if GAEc 2 peatland rules will apply on their lands.
Heydon's GAEC 2 comments labelled 'misleading and incorrect'
INHFA takes issue with Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon, in an open letter to all Oireachtas members.
9 March 2025 News
Step-by-step guide: how to check if your land is a GAEC 2 peat soil
The mapping system on agfood.ie now has an active layer which farmers can use to check the status of their lands.
7 March 2025 Schemes
News Podcast: TAMS, GAEC 2 and the CAP budget
Tune into this week's Farming News Podcast, where the team discusses the latest news and views in farming.
7 March 2025 News
Department set to design voluntary rewetting scheme for farmers
The rewetting of State land will satisfy targets under the Nature Restoration Law and farmers will be incentivised to rewet land voluntarily, says Department official.
7 March 2025 News
Trust in Government at ‘breaking point’ over peatland policies – ICSA
Martin Heydon’s discussion on 'reduced management intensity' of 80,000 hectares under Ireland’s Climate Action Plan has done little to reassure farmers, the ICSA has said.
6 March 2025 News
Department and Minister must respect farmers - Doyle
The IFA deputy president says that farmers have lost trust in Government, as the overlapping demands of the Nature Restoration Law, GAEC 2 and the Climate Action Plan affect peatland farmers.
6 March 2025 News
Farmers in GAEC 2 will continue ‘normal agricultural activity’ - Heydon
Minister Heydon was responding to a question from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae in the Dáil on Wednesday, who had been in attendance at an Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association protest at Agriculture House.
6 March 2025 News
Row ramps up over peatlands
Farm organisations have reacted angrily to GAEC 2 and a closed-door meeting held by the Department in recent weeks to discuss rewetting targets.
5 March 2025 News
Editorial: invest now in farming rather than future fines
We do need to protect carbon in soils and grow the volume of carbon that we protect.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints