Category: Forestry

Teagasc Safety Officer John McNamara has called for greater vigilance on farms during the months of December and January to ensure that farmers and their families have a safe and healthy Christmas. This is a particularly dangerous time on farms with 16% of all fatal farm accidents having taken place in these months over the [...]

Ms Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for Forestry, announced that she had secured agreement from the EU Commission to increase forestry planting grants paid by her Department. The current grants will increase by an average 14.4%. The maximum grants available will now range from €3,573 [...]

The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mary Coughlan T.D., today announced a package of measures for farmers worth €6.8 billion for the period 2007-2013. These measures relate to the agriculture elements of the Rural Development Programme, which has been central to the partnership negotiations on agriculture over the past few months. The Minister set out [...]

The ICMSA President, Mr. Jackie Cahill, has bitterly criticised the multitude of inspections on farms and has proposed a radical overhaul of the existing arrangements. The farm leader has pointed out that, at present, farmers are inspected by no less than six different authorities and are, quite literally, being inspected to distraction and [...]

The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mary Coughlan T.D., today confirmed the commencement of advance payments from next Monday, 16 October under the 2006 Single Payment Scheme.
"I am delighted to say that advance payments will be issuing next week to the vast majority of 2006 Single Payment Scheme applicants" the Minister said. She recalled that [...]

Ms Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for forestry, launched National Tree Day at Kentstown Primary School, Co Meath this morning.
Tree Day, which takes place this year on Thursday, 12 October, is dedicated by many schools throughout the country to studying trees, with the aim of [...]

Speaking at the launch of a major forestry promotion campaign in Mullingar today, Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for Forestry spoke of the benefits of forestry for farmers and the wider economy.
The nationwide forestry campaign, 'Forests for a Bright Future', is a joint initiative between [...]

Mary Wallace T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for Forestry called on farmers visiting the Ploughing Championships to take this opportunity to see what forestry has to offer. "Any farmer thinking about the future must think about forestry", the Minister said today. With a full forestry village, [...]

The Farming Independent is carrying out a major survey of 1,500 people at the Ploughing Championships.
We are asking visitors which Government they want to see in power, their views on current Minister for Agriculture Mary Coughlan, IFA president Padraig Walshe and Teagasc as an organisation. Drop into our stand at Row U, Stand 392 and [...]

The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mary Coughlan T.D., confirmed that the meeting of the EU Management Committee on Direct Payments in Brussels has approved her request that provision be made for an advance payment under the 2006 Single Payment Scheme. "I am particularly pleased at the support our proposal received from the Commission and [...]