Inflexibility on CAP proposals was only to be expected, when EU Commissioner for agriculture and rural development Dacian Ciolos came to Ireland.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has committed to repeating the scheme for allocation of milk quota to new entrants this year and next year.
Landowners swapping livestock, spending three months here and three months there, so that two areas could qualify for disadvantaged area payments, will be targeted by the new eligibility criteria announced in the December budget.
THE Teagasc forestry development department offers one-to-one free clinics on planting and managing trees, in local Teagasc offices this month. Maps and other relevant information or correspondence should be brought to the consultations, most of which will take place between 10 am and 4pm.
A value-for-money review of the suckler cow scheme has shown yet again that farmers respond well to financial aid.
Ireland’s heavy dependence on imported bread flour is to increase with the closure of the Odlums industrial-sized flour mill on Alexandra Road, Dublin.
Suppliers to Kerry and Glanbia enjoyed the second highest 2011 rise in the LTO milk price analysis from the Netherlands.
Disadvantaged Areas Scheme applicants whose stocking density was below 0.3 livestock units per hectare in 2011 will be written to and given the opportunity to apply for a derogation, following the Government proposals to require at least 0.3 livestock units in 2011 (equivalent to two ewes per hectare), and 0.15 livestock units per hectare in 2012.
About 1km east of Skibbereen, on the main Cork road, this 73-acre farm is just on the market through Hodnett Forde Auctioneers.
GOD made Donoughmore and then he done no more, as the saying goes.
TALK about auction fever — a recent result in Co Cork for land is upping the ante once more.
This fine block of land in a central Co Waterford location could be suitable for any number of agricultural purposes, says selling agent David Shee, of Shee and Hawe.
ADVICE to farmers in Britain to minimise grassland between now and 2014 has set the CAP reform proposals on a collision course with environmentalists.
ON the southern bank of the Blackwater and close to the Co Waterford border, the sale of this substantial 90-acre farm at Waterpark, Ballyduff, should create a flurry.
Irish dairy farmers never had a better opportunity to breed more profitable cows.
Different systems of dairying can be successful, under different circumstances.
QUESTION: I have been unable to renew some conacre that I was farming.
Proper feeding together with condition scores (CS) at calving determine health, breeding and production during the following season.
MARRIED men can be prone to exaggeration. Especially with a pint in our hands and reminiscing about the days when we were single.
BASF, the German chemical company, announced recently that the headquarters of BASF Plant Science, its biotech unit, would be moved from Germany to North Carolina in the US.
THERE are many organisations dedicated to helping cancer survivors manage the various challenges they face.
A group of bold, brash women cancer patients in America are also taking cancer by storm.
Many beef farm have carried a reasonable cover of grass over the winter to be grazed by stock this spring.
A farmer has 30 suckler cows and their calves to turn out, along with all their calves from last year (yearlings).
With ICA guilds revamping their image many ladies may consider a holiday with a difference, combining a cruise with craft.
Bree Macra from Co Wexford are the 2012 National Capers champs.
Official quotes have been reduced as much as 5 cent/kg (2p/lb) again this week at a number of factories, but the flow of cattle has tightened.
There is no overall change in prices on offer for lambs at factories for this week, with any tweaking in the upwards direction, thanks to continuing strong demand and relatively tight supply.
I read recently in a Dublin-based newspaper that, “Winter is now almost at an end.”
Recently I wrote about a neighbour of mine who is at his wit’s end due to the wrapping on sausages. He claims they just won’treseal properly.
Most of us would have no idea what our grandparents and their world looked like on a summer day long ago — were it not for George Eastman.
A European Commission plan for flat rate single farm payments in Ireland would spark a civil war, warns Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.
Russia and Mexico have suspended imports of sheep and sheep meat from countries worst hit by the new Schmallenberg virus in cattle, sheep and goats.
ICMSA has been branded as misogynist by Fianna Fáil senator Mary White.
Three exceptional blocks of tillage land close to the Bandon river and the south west Cork coast at Kilgobbin, Co Cork are to go to auction on February 23, and there has already been considerable interest, according to selling agent, Paddy Murray of Paddy Murray Auctioneers, Bandon.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney plans to set up an AEOS for SACs — but says he must find savings elsewhere to finance it.
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