Agri Week: Forestry jobs at risk, SEEFA call for Government actions and climate change impact on agriculture
On this week’s edition of Agri Week we talk to Enniscrone native Marina Conway from Western Forestry Co-op. Forestry group are appealing to Government to prevent demise of 12,000 jobs amid licensing crisis. A group called SEEFA Social Economic and environmental Association are appealing to the Government to take action.…
Agri Week: Rewilding the north west. New fishing regulations on weighing of catches. Factory Fiction Quotes for lambs.
1.44 With a national agenda for rewilding large areas of our country gathering pace through proposals outlined in the EU Biodiversity Strategy. The Irish Natura Hill Farmers Association have pointed to recent fires in Killarney National Park as an insight into the potential dangers of what they maintain is a…
Agri Week: Latest on Cap talks. Dead Sheep dumped in Donegal. Farm Payments for Shass mountain farmers.
On Agri Week this week We will talk to MEP Luke Ming Flanagan on the very latest on the negotiations on the new CAP. Flanagan is the only Irish politician directly involved in the talks. We hear the latest discussions in the Dáil on how farmers impacted by…
Agri Week: Funding for marts to upgrade ICT technology. Bank closures – the impact on farmers and farmers mental health concerns
On this week’s edition of ‘Agri week ‘ In a week where we celebrated National Women’s Day, we are joined by female contributors. 1.00 Eimear McGuinness, manager of Donegal Livestock Mart reacts to the news that The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Donegal TD Charlie…
Agri Week 0910 2020
On this week’s edition of Agri Week: The Founder of Ireland’s future, reacts with fury to a recent article in ‘Irish Examiner” by Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan. The article states that it is the intention of Government to plant 30% of the country and reduce the…
Agri Week September 10th 2020
On Agri Week this week we have a feature interview with the Leitrim farmer Kevin Comiskey as we gauge his reaction to an advisory letter he received from the Department of Agriculture in relation to culling his herd over TB concerns. Kevin’s reaction has gone viral. Also on…