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INHFA calls on minister to suspend ACRES payment clawbacks
Amy Forde
The INHFA has also taken issue with the delay by the Department in ratifying the non productive investments (NPIs) and landscape actions (LAs).
1 September 2024 News
Westport Hotel Group apologises to landowners
The Westport Hotel Group conceded that mistakes made in the early stages of planning for the Westport Hiking Festival had 'caused inconvenience and distress' to landowners.
28 August 2024 News
Hill farmers tell hoteliers to take a hike
Farmers are angry that walking festivals are being organised and marketed without landowner engagement or access permission being sought.
Pressure builds on Department over ACRES habitat scorecards
Habitat scores are due to be finally issued by 1 September, but there is silence from the Department on whether the timeline will be met.
21 August 2024 Schemes
Some ACRES repayment requests 'excessive'
The farm body calls on the Department to prioritise issuing habitat scores and clearing payments.
7 August 2024 Schemes
INHFA calls for immediate clarity on ACRES scores
The INHFA’s president has warned that the entire ACRES scheme could unravel if the Department cannot rectify scorecard and overpayment issues.
31 July 2024 News
Clarity needed on eligibility of restored bogs for restoration targets - INHFA
The possible exclusion of the 20,000ha of rehabilitated bogs from Ireland's Nature Restoration Law inventory could pull more farmed peatland into the mix.
28 July 2024 News
Fresh concern over rewetting targets for Irish farmland
Rehabilitation works completed before Ireland enacts the Nature Restoration Law will not qualify for Ireland's restoration and rewetting targets. Declan O'Brien and Noel Bardon report.
24 July 2024 News
Huge onus on politicians to 'get nature law right'
Brendan O’Malley from the Connemara branch of INHFA said that the last designation process left farmers 'bereft'.
24 July 2024 News
Connie moves on from INHFA
A key cog in the INHFA backroom team, Connie Walsh is off to pastures new with the IDA in the coming weeks.
24 July 2024 Dealer
Country is looking at a bedding shortage - INHFA
It needs to be recognised that the country is looking at a shortage of bedding and feed next winter, INHFA president says.
24 July 2024 News
INHFA calls for more Teagasc research on farming in the uplands
The motion was brought forward by the Donegal county executive at the INHFA AGM last week.
24 July 2024 News