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May 7, 2021 11:16 am The work and expense involved in converting to and maintaining an organic farm needs to be better recognised according to Nigel Renaghan, who responded to the news of a “low” uptake of this year’s Organic Farming Scheme. The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Organics Project Team chairman is questioning whether the juice is worth the squeeze with this scheme. This week, ‘Pilgrim farmers’ of the Organic Farming Scheme When opening the scheme, Minister of State Pippa Hackett said that the “significant level of funding provided for this new scheme” would faci...

SHARING OPTIONS: In 2019, in the EU, a total of 13.8m, hectares of land were being organically farmed (or 8.5%), so a jump to 25% in 10 years is considered ambitious \ Barry Cronin The European Union (EU) Farm to Fork strategy wants to make our food systems more environmentally sustainable while enabling healthier diets for consumers. It started in 2020 and aims to drastically cut pesticide use, increase soil health, reduce fertiliser use and reduce overall EU sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and aquaculture over 10 years. An additional aim is t...

The much-anticipated trial charter flight to export 900 dairy calves off the island will not take place this spring. The ‘Moove’ research project – being conducted by the Department of Agriculture, Teagasc and Wageningen University in the Netherlands – was due to fly between March 1 and April 30. However, in light of the pandemic, it has emerged that almost all freight airplanes are being used for transporting Covid-19 vaccines. As such, the flight has been delayed until May or June. IFA Ulster / North Leinster regional chairman Nigel Renaghan has criticised the development warning th...

Can Pippa hack it? 2021-02-03

Feeding wwes silage on an organic farm in Co Galway \ David Ruffles There has been a cautious welcome from farm organisations to news that the organics scheme is to be reopened for applications in early March. Minister of State Pippa Hackett announced that funding was available for up to 500 more farmers to join the scheme on top of the 1,500 existing participants. The IFA has warned that the reopening must not see widespread rejections of farmers. IFA organics chair Nigel Renaghan said: "The scheme last re-opened in November 2018 for four weeks. Seventy-five percent of applicants were refu...