IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Vincent Nally is warning farmers to be vigilant over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend after a Condition Orange – High Fire Risk has issued. The warning is to remain in place until next Tuesday in all areas, unless there is significant rainfall.

  IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Vincent Nally has welcomed changes that no longer require a farmer to retain 10% of their eligible hectares in an agricultural activity to for the purposes of retaining eligibility for BPS.

IFA Farm Forestry Chair, Vincent Nally said that the afforestation figures show that farmer planting under the current programme has declined by 67%. “The figures make for stark reading and clearly show that farmers are disengaging from forestry, at time when we need more farmers to consider forest as a viable option as part of […]

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Vincent Nally said the issuing of felling licences must be the top priority of the Department of Agriculture.