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Could a fodder crop be an option for your farm? These crops are beneficial for animal performance and reduce the stress placed on silage supplies.

Think carefully before you spray rushes and weeds 2021-05-19

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AS fears continue to grow over the potential introduction of a regulation that could exclude thousands of farmers from getting their CAP payments, Colm O’Donnell, president of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) ,has penned an open letter to Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue. Signed by Colm O’Donnell on behalf of the INHFA, it reads: Dear Minister McConalogue, Advertisement As President of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA), I am writing to you on...

outside the burning season more than 10 hectares in a single burn more than 0.5 hectares on a slope steeper than 45 degrees or on rocky or scree areas in a way that exposes more than 0.5 hectares of bare soil (where no more than 2% is covered by plant material) in a way that exposes bare soil that stretches for more than 25 metres along the banks of a watercourse (any channel with flowing water apart from pipes) and is more than 1 metre wide throughout an area and leave soil smouldering for mor...

Opinion: Our farm subsidy model is broken and causing destruction to habitats As the biodiversity crisis gathers pace, researcher Ray O’Foghlu explains how both farmers and environmentalists struggle with contradictory land eligibility rules. By Ray O’Foghlu Saturday 1 May 2021, 8:00 PM 1 hour ago 4,825 Views 6 Comments ...

SHARING OPTIONS: Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2 requires the imposition of management practises that protect carbon-rich soils. Farmers on peatlands and wetlands are up in arms over plans to impose new rules in the next CAP which they believe threaten farmers’ “ability to exist” on these lands. In a letter sent to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has demanded a...

The Dail has passed a motion calling for the withdrawal of the European Council of Ministers’ proposal on management of carbon-rich soils. The motion was moved by Independent Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle, who said the proposal could allow governments set the standards for eligibility for CAP payments in such a way that excludes some hill farmers in the West and North West. Deputy Pringle said the provision, which is linked to GAEC, the Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition protocol, ...

SHARING OPTIONS: The Department will have to define and map peatlands and wetlands at an individual land parcel level in the next CAP. \ Philip Doyle Irish farmers on peatlands and wetlands are set to be on the frontline of a cross-compliance battle in the next CAP. A new Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) is being introduced from 2023 which will impose management practices that provide protection for carbon-rich soils.

SHARING OPTIONS: Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2 requires the imposition of management practises that protect carbon-rich soils. Farmers on peatland or wetland will not have their payments stripped away in the next CAP, the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has insisted. It comes after farmers in upland and hill areas expressed fears that a new cross compliance requirement could render land ineligible for direct payments....