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There was a positive atmosphere among the audience at the Irish Farmers Journal Tillage Day 2024 supported by the Irish Seed Trade Association. 10 November 2024 News. State spends €12m on NPWS land acquisitions. The National Parks and Wildlife Service snapped up over 3,000ac of land last year, with more land deals in the works.
Irish Farmers Journal – For the Latest Farming News in Ireland
Nevan McKiernan reports from the Irish Shorthorn Cattle Society's Premier show and sale which took place on Saturday. 10 November 2024 Pedigree. 30-acre Hungarian tomato farm utilising modern greenhouses. The Irish Farmers Journal visited one of the 8.9-acre greenhouses while on an agricultural press tour of Hungary. 10 November 2024 News.
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6 days ago · Tillage Day: positivity among tillage sector clear. There was a positive atmosphere among the audience at the Irish Farmers Journal Tillage Day 2024 supported by the Irish Seed Trade Association. 10 November 2024 News.
Budget 2024: everything farmers need to know - Free - Irish …
Oct 10, 2023 · The budget for the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) for 2024 will be €57m, up €21m on the €36m allocated for 2023. The OFS is set to reopen in the coming weeks, with a target to bring 1,000 new organic conversion farmers into the scheme from January. There will then be some 5,100 farmers participating in the scheme.
Fair Deal and succession - the biggest issues for Irish farmers
Jan 17, 2024 · Looking at the day-to-day issues impacting Irish farmers, input prices are the biggest worry for farmers. In the survey, 66% reported that this was their biggest issue, which is less than the 75% in last year’s survey. This reflects that, for the moment, input costs are relatively stable – though at higher levels compared to two years ago ...
Eight decades of farming through the pages of the Irish Farmers …
Dec 27, 2023 · In 1951, as chair of Macra na Feirme, John Mooney brought a proposal to PaddyO’Keeffe to purchase the Irish Farmers Journal. Enter John Mooney, Macra chair, who joined forces with Paddy O’Keeffe and Michael Dillon, to buy back the paper from the Fleet Printing Company for £2,000. Mooney invested £10,000, all of which was lost in the first ...
Could Irish farmers be better with a regenerative produce label?
Oct 6, 2024 · A regenerative agriculture label on a product. This may bring in a premium for farmers and result in a reduction in artificial fertiliser and chemical input use on these farms, while maintaining a higher level of production than on organic farms. There are opportunities across sectors from porridge and flour to butter and milk.
‘Critical importance’ of €19bn farming sector highlighted in annual ...
Nov 27, 2023 · The critical importance of the farming sector in Ireland has been highlighted in the Department of Agriculture’s annual review and outlook for 2023, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has said. “Despite the many challenges faced in the last number of years by our farmers and fishers, food producers, processors and the food ...
Difficult to translate low-carbon grain into financial return
2 days ago · 13 November 2024. It’s harder to show the benefit of the low-carbon footprint, like Irish grain, in a final product, Tillage Day heard. \ Philip Doyle. It is difficult to translate the low carbon footprint of Irish grain into a monetary return for farmers, according to Donal Moloney, Tirlán grain manager. “We’re doing our best at the ...