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Farmers can earn up to €40,000 per turbine lease

2026 could potentially be a record-breaking year for wind energy with 2,112MW now in the planning system.

NEWS 28 January 2026

Farmers can earn up to €40,000 per turbine lease

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Ireland's wind revolution – what’s in it for farmers?

Ireland's wind revolution – what’s in it for farmers?

RENEWABLES 28 January 2026

Farming With Nature scheme set to change

Farming With Nature scheme set to change

NORTHERN IRELAND 21 January 2026

Big demand for southeast small holdings

Big demand for southeast small holdings

Big demand for southeast small holdings

PROPERTY 1 January 2026

Offaly farmers wanted for hare’s corner scheme

Offaly farmers wanted for hare’s corner scheme

Offaly farmers wanted for hare’s corner scheme

NEWS 28 December 2025

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Renewables: a changing landscape

Renewables: a changing landscape

Stephen Robb previews this week’s special renewable energy focus in the Irish Farmers Journal and asks whether our agricultural landscape is changing.

RENEWABLES 29 October 2025

Solar farm debate continues in farming

Solar farm debate continues in farming

Solar farms are becoming an ever-more visible on our landscape in certain parts of the country, so too are calls to manage where they are built.

RENEWABLES 29 October 2025

Greenways demonstrators head for the Dáil

Greenways demonstrators head for the Dáil

There could be fireworks when the divisive issue of greenways is discussed by the Oireachtas Transport Committee next week.

NEWS 29 October 2025

IFA alarmed at plans to require forest owners to maintain ESB line corridors

IFA alarmed at plans to require forest owners to maintain ESB line corridors

Legislation has been brought before cabinet that would place a responsibility on forestry owners to maintain power line corridors, the IFA has said.

FORESTRY 29 October 2025

Concern over tax treatment of farmer compensation for Shannon pipeline

Concern over tax treatment of farmer compensation for Shannon pipeline

Around 500 landowners are to be effected by plans to construct a 172km steel pipeline from the Parteen basin on the River Shannon to a termination reservoir on the Kildare-Dublin border.

NEWS 29 October 2025

Labour sticking with inheritance tax plan

Labour sticking with inheritance tax plan

The new £1m limit on agricultural property relief and business property relief combined is set to come into effect as planned from April 2026

NORTHERN IRELAND 29 October 2025

Angst over south Kerry greenway CPOs

Angst over south Kerry greenway CPOs

Work is ongoing on the development of the south Kerry greenway but it has been a project soured by the imposition of CPOs. Tommy Moyles recently spoke with a number of landowners in the area.

FEATURE 29 October 2025

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Why this Antrim contractor moved to Amazone ploughs

Ryan Bole is part of J Wilson Contracts in Co Antrim. Available for all kinds of work from slurry to reseeding, sowing to silage, today they are ploughing for potatoes with two Amazone ploughs.

Why this Antrim contractor moved to Amazone ploughs

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