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Forestry News

2011-12-23

FUNDING MUST BE SECURED FROM WITHIN FORESTRY BUDGET TO RE-OPEN VITAL SUPPORT SCHEMES IMMEDIATELY – IFA

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy said the suspension of the Forest Road and the Woodland Improvement Schemes are a major blow to the management of the private forest sector. He said that funding must be secured immediately from elsewhere in the budget to fund these vital schemes.

2011-12-21

IFA ENCOURAGES PUBLIC TO BUY IRISH AND PROTECT FORESTS FROM RISK POSED BY PROHIBITED IMPORTED FIREWOOD

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy said the recent interception by the Forest Service of imported firewood with live bark beetle larvae could have posed a serious threat to health of Irish forests. He said this highlighted the potential risk to Irish forests from prohibited imported timber products and thanked the member of the public that notified the Forest Service.

2011-12-08

FOREST PREMIUMS PROTECTED, BUT CUTS TO SUPPORTS SCHEMES WILL HAMPER MOBILISATION OF THE PRIVATE TIMBER RESOURCE – IFA

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy said the maintenance of the forestry programme budget acknowledges the contribution of the forest sector to the economy and its increasingly important role in rural development. In 2010, the value of the forest industry to the economy was estimated at over €2.8bn

2011-11-22

CHRISTMAS TREE HARVEST UNDERWAY AS FOREST OWNERS COMBAT GROWING THREAT OF THEFT

The harvesting of 700,000 Christmas trees for the domestic and export market is well underway around the country, with up to 100 growers in the middle of the busiest time of the year for them in the run-up to December. The Christmas tree market is worth €15m to the economy.

2011-10-14

MAINTAINING THE FORESTRY BUDGET MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE – IFA

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy said that confidence in the forestry programme would be totally undermined if forest premiums were to be cut again in the upcoming budget.

2011-09-19

IFA TELL MINISTER THAT FOREST PREMIUMS MUST BE HONOURED OR FARMERS WILL NOT CONTINUE TO PLANT

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy has told Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture with responsibility for forestry Shane McEntee that the protection of the forest premiums was paramount in the upcoming Budget. He said farmers had committed their land to forestry and they expected the same commitment from the Government.

2011-07-11

IFA CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO REVERSE DECISION TO CAP UNENCLOSED LAND UNDER AFFORESTATION SCHEME

IFA met with Shane McEntee, Minister of State with responsibility for Forestry recently to ask him to reverse decision that limited unenclosed land to 20% of total area and re-introduce old system enabled unenclosed land capable of producing a minimum Yield Class of 14 to be planted under the Afforestation Scheme.

2011-04-28

FORESTRY SECTOR HAS POTENTIAL TO GENERATE TIMBER SALES OF €50M PER ANNUM

Speaking at the opening of the IFA Farm Forestry Conference in Portlaoise this morning (Thurs), IFA President John Bryan said private sector timber production has the potential to increase to 1 million m3 per annum by 2018. Timber production from the private sector is currently at 200,000 m3

2011-04-28

TARGETED NUMBER FOR AEOS MAY NOT BE MET WITH DEADLINE DATE LOOMING

IFA Rural Development Chairman Tom Turley has urged farmers who consider AEOS to be of value to them, to apply before the mid-May Single Farm Payment application date.

2011-03-29

IFA CALLS ON THE MINISTER TO REMOVE FORESTRY EMBARGO IN HEN HARRIER SPAs

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman, Pat Hennessy called on the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Phil Hogan to remove the embargo on forestry operations in Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (SPAs).

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