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Decade of change for Irish Farmers
Phelim O'Neill
Three major policy changes this decade will come with a cost that doesn't end at the farm gate.
25 July 2024 News
Farmers can now access N and P statements up to June
The interim statements have been calculated off existing excretion figures and not the ones proposed by the Department of Agriculture earlier this year.
25 July 2024 News
Straw scheme U-turn and new €175/ha baling payment
An agreement has been reached between the farm organisations and the Minister for Agriculture on straw incorporation.
Exclusive: mounting red tape could blow €3bn hole in rural economy
The report examines the combined impact delivering a 25% reduction in emissions, the loss of the nitrates derogation and CAP changes could have.
24 July 2024 News
Payment of €300/cow needed – UCD economist
At the Tullamore Farm National Suckler and Sheep Open Day, professor Michael Wallace said supports for sucker cows need to reach €300 a head to sustain these farms.
24 July 2024 News
Minister set to sign off on disputed medicine law
It is anticipated that the statutory instrument enacting the changes will be signed over the next fortnight despite vets' opposition.
24 July 2024 News
Huge onus on politicians to 'get nature law right'
Brendan O’Malley from the Connemara branch of INHFA said that the last designation process left farmers 'bereft'.
24 July 2024 News
Minister plans to address forgotten farmers in budget
The forgotten farmers group was founded in 2015, when 4,000 farmers were identified by the Department of Agriculture as being excluded from key farm schemes.
24 July 2024 News
Charter? What charter?
Last Wednesday, the minister moved to suspend the Straw Incorporation Measure of his own volition. What of the Farmers' Charter of Rights?
24 July 2024 Dealer
Straw Incorporation Measure fiasco
The Straw Incorporation Measure Fiasco is something may still be resolved ,but it was always entirely avoidable.
24 July 2024 Dealer
Minister wants 'quality straw' baled
This is a change from the Minister on the Straw Incorporation Measure which he sought to suspend last week.
24 July 2024 News
CAT worth €180m a year to farmers
Agricultural Relief and Capital Acquisitions Tax combined to save farmers €900m over five years
24 July 2024 News