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Farmers need support as weather conditions persist - IFA
Niamh Murphy
The IFA asks the Department and banks to consider the stress that the weather is placing on farmers and encouraged anyone feeling isolated to seek support.
13 March 2024 Farm machinery
Disc coulters providing accurate placement for Carlow contractor
Peter Thomas Keaveney visited Carlow farming and contracting father and son duo Dan and John O’Neil to find out how their Amazone 3m one-pass has performed after its first two seasons.
13 March 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: all ready to calve
Karen McCabe is all set to calve, with "straw bales ordered and delivered and new boarding installed".
Fieldwork a struggle and no clarity on tillage rules
Tillage farmers are frustrated with weather and field conditions as they cannot get work done. Clarity on rules is also frustrating the industry.
12 March 2024 News
Hope not springing eternal so far
March has brought little improvement in the weather or the forecast, and farmers need good news, and good weather, soon.
6 March 2024 Dealer
Seeds of positivity
The Meath-based outfit – which is headed up by Oldcastle farmer and businessman Paddy Mangan – is donating four-year-old native Irish trees to all the 115 national schools in Co Meath.
6 March 2024 Dealer
Small-scale forestry scheme mired in soft ground
Farmers are identifying wet sections of ground to plant, but peaty soils are ineligible for the Native Tree Area scheme.
28 February 2024 News
DAERA buying farmland to plant trees
DAERA confirmed that “offers on a small number of parcels of land” in Northern Ireland are currently being made
21 February 2024 Northern Ireland
Whitethorn planting - one month left
I understand we are importing about five times the amount of trees like Whitethorn quicks than we need given the demand from the number of farmers in ACRES.
14 February 2024 Viewpoints
Exclusive: patchy crops will not be penalised
Here is some clarification on what to do with bare patches and winter crops which did not establish.
13 February 2024 News
IFA reiterates misgivings on forestry programme
The IFA has claimed that the new forestry programme will result in a reduced timber productive area and higher overall establishment costs for farmers.
7 February 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: payments and counting plants, crops and carbon
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we have advice for farmers on what to do with poorly established crops.
1 February 2024 News