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Meat processors’ and Government policy has taken a ‘low-road’ approach in recent years

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Farmers in Laois and across Ireland have been advised that it is now illegal to burn agricultural land or cut hedgerows with the start of the growing season. Th...

Department warns farmers of prosecutions attached to burning land illegally 2021-03-03

Image source: Cork City Fire Brigade The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has issued advice to farmers and their advisors in relation to agricultural and eligible forestry land which is burnt during the closed season. The closed season lasts from Monday, March 1, to August 31, the authority notes. The department says it has now activated its Fire Danger Rating System for the season and advises that forest owners and managers should check and update fire plans and other relevant c...

Charlotte Webster is an associate and senior rural surveyor at Arnolds Keys - Irelands Agricultural - Credit: Arnolds Keys With EU subsidies being phased out, East Anglian farmers should take advantage of improved grants for capital works including planting hedgerows and protecting water quality says Charlotte Webster, senior rural surveyor at Arnolds Keys - Irelands Agricultural. Applications are now open for the Countryside Stewardship Capital Grant Scheme (CGS), a programme of st...

As is usual at this time of year there is a cohort of landowners who are about to sign up to a lease of land and entitlements. However, this year is different in that landowners have no idea of what the future holds in regard to the fate of their entitlements. Recent headlines about so-called ‘armchair farmers’ are not helping matters and, in fact, are adding to the stress levels of many intending lessors that I have spoken to recently. The impending replacement of the Basic Payment Scheme ...

It looks like the 2021 season is finally about to kick off after what’s been a long winter on many fronts.

February 23, 2021 3:14 pm Applications for Northern Ireland’s 2021 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Entitlement Transfer Service will open on March 1, Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons has announced. Welcoming the launch, Minister Lyons said: “I am pleased to announce that the 2021 Single Application and Map Service and Entitlement Transfer Service will open on March 1, 2021. Entitlement transfer applications will be accepted up to May 4, and Single Applications for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)...

Analysis: How good are foot-and-mouth controls 20 years on? >More in © Science Library It is 20 years since foot-and-mouth caused a crisis in British farming as it swept through the countryside. Millions of livestock were slaughtered, leaving farms devastated. We ask, two decades on, could it happen again? Dr Craig Kirby, who works as a veterinary adviser to the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (Aims), says the outbreak exposed...