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The Government last week announced its most radical plan to reduce the environmental footprint of Irish farms. It comes after the Programme for Government, and the recently published Climate Action Amendment Bill 2020, sets outs the objective to achieve a ‘climate neutral economy’ which balances emissions and removals within the State by the end of 2050 and in subsequent years. Farm organisations have reacted angrily to the plans highlighting that food prices remain low despite more regulat...

Roadmap points to the end of Irish agricultural expansion Farmers can expect measures to control the number of animals and management of their manure Organic production is the main new expansion frontier in Irish farming, with an effective cap on livestock numbers, and use of nitrogen fertiliser to reduce by 20%. Wed, 16 Dec, 2020 - 10:37 Could Brexit halt the progress of Irish agriculture? It could, but it doesn’t matter, because climate action is going to do that anyway. “Any increase in...

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said he was delighted that payments were commencing. \ Philip Doyle Some €37m is set to land in farmers accounts who took part in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP). Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said he was delighted that payments were commencing and confirmed that farmers would be contacted shortly by letter and text message regarding the rollover of the scheme in 2021. “Ensuring the rapid issuing of payments of schem...

December 11, 2020 6:48 pm Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has confirmed that European Commission approval has been received for the continuity of farm schemes in 2021. Announcing the news at 6:30pm this evening (Friday, December 11) Minister McConalogue said: “I am delighted to confirm that, following the approval by the European Commission of the amendment to the Rural Development Programme, we now have continuity of farm payments in 2021 for the main farm ...

  It has been another positive week in terms of the Department of Agriculture rolling out vital payments under a number of schemes. Balancing payments comprising 15% of the total payment and worth €40m was paid into farmers bank accounts this week. There are still 10,000 farmers who are yet to receive payment, due primarily to possessing an insufficient stocking rate. The experience of recent years shows that in the region of 5,000 to 6,000 of these will not reach this stocking rate. Basic...

With the new CAP expected to come into force in 2023, EU approval has been secured for the extension of Irish farm schemes into next year.