Environment
Commission understood to have asked Ireland to reduce fertiliser allowances and increase "buffer zones" to secure a new nitrates derogation.
Dairy
There is rising concern about the lack of detail regarding terms and conditions that may be applied...
It is looking more optimistic that Ireland will hold onto a nitrates derogation with news today...
Agri Politics
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon has said that the retention of a...
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MEP for the Midlands North West, Maria Walsh has said Ireland needs "time and fairness" when it...
An Irish MEP has said that the retention of Ireland's nitrates derogation "cannot come with...
An Taisce has urged European Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall to move Ireland away from its dependancy on the nitrates derogation.
Midlands North West MEP Ciaran Mullooly has written to government ministers, seeking "urgent...
The expansion of the Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme (ASSAP) is a...
A coalition of environmental organisations urged the government to implement "stronger, more urgent measures" to restore Ireland’s waterways.
Concentrations of nitrates decreased in 39% of river sites over the period 2019 to 2024, but nitrate levels are "too high" in 44% of sites.
Officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have given an update on...
The EPA has voiced concern after new data showed a sharp rise in nitrogen concentrations across Ireland’s major rivers
The EPA has reported that average nitrogen concentrations across 20 'representative sites' increased by 16% in the first half of the year.
Teagasc explain that the protection of water quality is a long-term process, but every individual action in the short term pays dividends.
Dairy News
The findings of a report on the potential economic impact of the loss of the nitrates derogation on Ireland's dairy sector are "frightening".
Rural Life
The work of the Dutch in helping to protect Irish peatlands was honoured at an event this week in...
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has received a number of reports prepared by Teagasc that he said will inform the next NAP.
The ICMSA's deputy president Eamon Carroll has called on DAFM to publish the interim nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) statements.
Dairy farms whose holdings are considered 'fragmented' could face a reduced chemical nitrogen allowance if manure is not evenly spread.
N.Ireland
Farmers for Action is calling for Northern Ireland’s new Nitrates Action Plan (NAP) to be adequately funded by the Stormont Executive
The ICMSA has called on the Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon to fully explain his proposals to retain the nitrates derogation.
