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Too many column inches have been dedicated over recent weeks to the closing dates for the myriad farming schemes recently announced.

Changes to the way the government’s flagship Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme is to be implemented in England are expected in the next month,

Millburn House and farm, Ardour, Kilconly, Tuam, Co. Galway, on 96ac, until recently home to the renowned Millburn Limousin and Doon Charolais pedigree herd, is new to market.

What to expect in a Young Farmers Scheme inspection 2022-11-11

Defra has confirmed that more than 2,700 farmers initially applied to the Lump Sum Exit Scheme (LSES) – the application period for which closed on 30

Farmers in the South Downs National Park are being encouraged to apply for funding that could boost business resilience while helping the environment.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will meet for a second time today to discuss a range of farm schemes.

This is the fourth survey examining pesticide usage practices on edible protected crops (excluding soft fruit) grown under permanent protection in Northern Ireland, providing comparative data to that obtained in the previous surveys in 2017 (Lavery et al., 2018) and 2019 (Lavery et al., 2020). A previous report in 1991 included information on pesticide use on vegetable crops, strawberries and protected ornamental crops: Protected Crops (edible and ornamental), (Kidd et al., 1993). For this surv...

A new scheme under development to provide support to the 'forgotten farmers' must have clear funding warns Macra

A long-awaited scheme to support a group known as the ‘forgotten farmers’ is set to be unveiled by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.