
Environment
Do you condition score your earthworm populations?
The regular assessment of earthworm populations will provide farmers with important perspectives on the overall health status of their soils,”...
Environment
The regular assessment of earthworm populations will provide farmers with important perspectives on the overall health status of their soils,”...
Beef
Reduced meat consumption might not lower greenhouse gas emissions from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions, a study...
Environment
A new report released today has identified 1.08m hectares of land currently used for agriculture that it says would be ‘better suited’...
Environment
Farmers are to receive funding from the Government to help alleviate the difficulties they are facing from flooding. Yesterday, Tuesday,...
Environment
Over the last five years, 12 people have suffered a fatal accident arising from the use of chainsaws or tree felling...
Environment
The prohibited period when slurry spreading is not allowed on Irish farms will lift in a couple of weeks. Drowning and...
Environment
New legislation to allow hedgecutting and burning at certain times within the existing closed period on a pilot basis is...
Environment
New rules to curb the influx of pests to stop them spreading and eradicate the most dangerous ones were informally...
Environment
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture decreased last year, according to latest research from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It released...
Environment
The second tranche of the new Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) has been launched by the Minister of State at the Department...
Environment
Some Christmas tree growers in Co. Wicklow are sleeping out in caravans near their crop to protect them from thieves....
Environment
Glyphosate, the chemical used widely in pesticides including Roundup, is ‘unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans‘, according to...
Environment
Approximately 50% of all water bodies in Ireland require improvement in terms of water quality and this could have a...
Environment
Some €4.3m has been made available for the 2016 Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture...
Environment
Lime is required on up to 65% of dairy farms, the statistic is a major concern as land is the...
Environment
It is estimated that 30% of private wells in Ireland are contaminated by E. coli arising from animal or human...
Environment
A draft EU law that would enable any member state to restrict or prohibit the sale and use of EU-approved...
Environment
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Environment Minister, Mark H Durkan has announced that he is prohibiting the cultivation of...