Farm safety

Fifth-year students from a rural area in Co Cork, are providing people in their community with the basic skills needed to save lives, writes Sarah McIntosh.

There are a significant number of administrative and on-farm inspections taking place at present, so it is a good time to ensure paperwork is up to date.

With mobile cattle handling amongst the more popular items under TAMS III, Martin Merrick looks at what spec yours needs to be to qualify.

With just over ¾ of tranche 3 applications now issued, the Department should now be soon moving on to tranche 4 applications.

The free checks will be provided at 15 marts over a six-week period under the IFA programme.

Across the first four tranches, 26,976 applications have been submitted across the 10 sub schemes within TAMS III.

Budget 2025 is coming down to the wire in being firmed up, but there is very little room to fund new measures in agriculture.

Minister of State Martin Heydon said discussions are taking place as to what a farm safety incentive in the budget may look like.