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Tillage
Free tillage emissions calculator available in Q3 2025
Siobhán Walsh
Teagasc is finalising details of a tillage carbon calculator and plans to make it available to farmers free of charge in the coming months.
5 February 2025 News
Macra and IFA back farm succession scheme
Macra and the IFA have both called for the introduction of a farm succession scheme. Noel Bardon and Anne O'Donoghue report.
5 February 2025 l2
In pictures: IFA 70th annual general meeting
This week IFA continues its look back on the 70th AGM with a series of images.
Dog control must fall under one department - Wicklow IFA
Thomas Byrne was speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal about three separate dog attacks that happened in the county in the last month.
5 February 2025 News
New water quality committee needs ‘all-sectors approach’ - IFA
It comes as IFA environmental chair John Murphy welcomed the new Government’s commitment to retaining Ireland’s derogation, outlined in the Programme for Government.
4 February 2025 News
Lessons have to be learned from storm damage – IFA
The INHFA is also warning farmers and contractors that many sheds and other buildings might be damaged from the storm, which could have weakened them.
31 January 2025 News
Farmers count the cost of storm damage
As thousands of farmers and homeowners enter a seventh day without power or water, the Government, ESB and Uisce Éireann have been accused of "snoring at the wheel".
29 January 2025 News
In pictures: 70th IFA annual general meeting
Featuring many familiar faces, this year’s IFA annual general meeting was a success.
29 January 2025 l2
Storm Éowyn causes serious forest damage
Forests in counties Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were hit particularly hard, but some damage was caused in most counties.
29 January 2025 Forestry
Call for generators to be included in TAMS
IFA poultry chair Nigel Sweetnam made the call following the extended power outage in the wake of storm Éowyn.
29 January 2025 News
IFA to restart renewables project team
Farmers have had minimal representation over the past number of years when several significant government renewables policies were formed.
29 January 2025 News
Storm Éowyn: forestry owners call for Government support
The call was directed at the newly appointed minister with responsibility for forestry Michael Healy-Rae and the Department of Agriculture after the “unprecedented destruction” from the storm.
29 January 2025 Forestry