Agri-Business
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that government has been "engaged intensively" at EU level to voice Ireland's concerns.
Schemes
Farmers should be rewarded for maintaining lower nitrates rates along a sliding scale in the next CAP according to the ICSA.
Dairy
The Dutch Agricultural and Horticultural Organisation said the Irish extension highlights the importance of a derogation as an "instrument".
A farm organisation has said that a "united effort" has delivered the nitrates derogation, and the same is now needed "to stop" Mercosur.
The decision today (Tuesday, December 9) to extend Ireland's nitrates derogation for a further...
Environment
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon has this morning (Tuesday, December 9)...
Commission understood to have asked Ireland to reduce fertiliser allowances and increase "buffer zones" to secure a new nitrates derogation.
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...
Video
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".
