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2 天之前 · Many vegetable and fruit growers have been left to bear a heavy financial cost from the damage from storm Éowyn over the weekend. Brian Dilleen of Mad Yolk Farm in Craughwell, Co Galway, told the Irish Farmers Journal that claiming the damage from an insurance company will not help fix the financial toll. “I will not claim for insurance, because the irony of the insurance system in Ireland ...

2 天之前 · Fianna Fáil MEP for Midlands-Northwest Barry Cowen has said that recent improvements in water quality and farm practice must be factored into the European Commission’s handling of Ireland’s application for a post-2026 nitrates derogation.

3 天之前 · In terms of economic sustainability, incomes in all the main farming sectors are estimated to have increased in 2024 compared with 2023. This, Teagasc said, was helped by the higher farmgate prices in the second half of 2024 for milk, beef and sheepmeat and the good grass production and grazing conditions in the autumn/early winter period.

3 天之前 · Teagasc pointed to the cohort of farms impacted by this proposal as having been “an important source of fodder when stocks became scarce” in spells like summer 2018 and winter 2023/2024 in a submission it made on the proposals.

2 天之前 · Caffrey also raised the EU’s revision of animal welfare and transport regulations as an area of legislation that looks set to hit farmers. Animal transport space requirement increases proposed under this review would require almost half a million additional truck journeys each year to being fattened pigs for processing under the proposals, he said.

2 天之前 · In the discussion on strengthening the position of the farmer in the food supply chain, through changes to strengthen cross-border co-operation on unfair trading practices and the rules providing for written contracts, the Minister lent his support to the European Commissioner for Agriculture’s proposals to further strengthen farmers’ position in …

4 天之前 · The Department of Agriculture published the final crop area figures for 2024 last week. Preliminary figures were published in last summer. The figures show that the main tillage area declined by 4,708ha or 1.4% from 2023 to 2024.

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2024年12月25日 · 9. Cycling 23,000km: Fergal Guihen’s journey from Roscommon to Australia. The 25-year-old part-time farmer and nurse set out to cycle 23,000km from Roscommon to Australia, taking a total of 11 months to complete the challenge, in aid of the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation.