A tree planting programme in Co. Tyrone could offer a long-term solution for rural flooding, according to a research report...
March 20, 2018
Flooding relief and knowledge transfer have been confirmed to be two of the eight Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture (DAERA) decisions...
March 7, 2018
With many acres of last year’s grass still lying rotting across Ulster, and wet weather conditions continuing, the College of...
February 28, 2018
Following the summer no farmer will forget – for all the wrong reasons – silage yields in Northern Ireland hit...
February 22, 2018
A meeting for Sperrins farmers affected by landslides during the August floods will discuss the possibility of using the ‘Force...
February 15, 2018
One week on, farmers and their families affected by the flooding in the northwest of the province are still coming...
August 30, 2017
Farmer Seamus McColgan from Iskaheen, Muff, Co. Donegal, is said to be “quite shaken” after the tractor he was driving...
August 24, 2017
The flooding that struck the north-west of the country has left a trail of devastation in its wake in both...
The Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Seán Canney, said 2016...
December 24, 2016
Freezing weather conditions affects farming in several ways and to help give advice to farmers on what to do in...
November 9, 2016
The possibility of a voluntary farmyard relocation scheme is being discussed by the Government’s Interdepartmental Flood Policy Co-ordination Working Group....
October 20, 2016
Problems arising from the flooding from the Shannon will not be solved in one winter, Minister of State at the Department of...
October 19, 2016
Farmers and farming families are still under siege from rising flood waters at a number of turloughs in Roscommon and Galway, Fianna...
July 22, 2016
A steering group that was to oversee a national programme for flood risk assessment did not meet during a four-year period, a new...
April 6, 2016
Farmers and other owners of flood-hit land and property in Northern Ireland are being advised by the North’s Department of...
March 26, 2016
Farmers in Northern Ireland affected by the recent flooding will be able to apply for £1,000 financial aid under a new...
March 11, 2016
Some 377 applications were received by the Department of Agriculture under the Fodder Aid Scheme which was open between January...
February 22, 2016
Between waterlogged ground and exceptionally strong winter growth, the weather this winter has been nothing short of a disaster for...
February 11, 2016
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