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163 agriculture complaints made to Ombudsman in 2020 2021-06-09

River pollution Wales: Farmers face six-figure sum to comply By Mari Grug image copyrightAfonydd Cymru image captionThe Welsh government says river pollution incidents happen on average three times a week in Wales Some farmers will face having to fork out a "six-figure sum" to comply with new rules aimed at tackling river pollution, it is claimed. Andrew Jones, who lives on a family farm near Lampeter, in Ceredigion, said many farmers would leave the industry. The Welsh government has designate...

Richard Morgan says multi species leys perform an environmental good By Debbie James Multi-species leys can perform as well as traditional ryegrass in upland regions, a three-year study in Wales has found. The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Wales study put seed mixes incorporating meadow fescue, Timothy and a festulolium, together with plantain and chicory to the test on three upland beef and sheep farms. The results of the study show that a multi-species ley has yield benefits i...

Maria Walsh: weve lost sight of the key aims of CAP 2021-06-05

I’m sure Defra meant well when it came up with the idea of paying older farmers in England – who apparently can’t or won’t adapt to greener farming

Higher payment rates and the assistance of skilled advisers will be required to make the upcoming Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme successful,

Average straw scheme payment of €4,546 per farmer - Department 2021-06-03

June 3, 2021 5:36 pm The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being called on to ensure that all applications currently in the system for the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) are included in the department’s costing review of the scheme. At a Charter of Rights meeting today (Thursday, June 3) with department officials, representatives of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) called for the review to be completed “without any further delay” and that it must �...

English farmers offered lump sum to exit 2021-05-19

Grass is fairly uncomplicated stuff, you would think. It’s green, it grows, you cut it, graze it – end of story. But not when it comes to the Basic