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independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
The resistant weed population was identified during tests conducted at Teagasc Oak Park, where glasshouse assessments and molecular analysis were carried out. Dr. Vijaya Bhaskar, Weed Researcher at the Teagasc Crops Research Department, reported that multiple glyphosate products were tested at four different application rates, including the maximum allowed. “Of concern was the fact that all products were ineffective,” Dr. Bhaskar said.
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independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
Christophe Hansen was also told that many of Ireland’s plantation forests are in the wrong place to deliver for climate change reductionIreland needs to address insensitive legacy afforestation, new EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen was told by Commission officials ahead of a visit to Ireland in January.
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independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
Liam Philpott and his wife Anne Pounds claim they have a letter proving the loan was cleared 12 years ago A High Court judge has confirmed an injunction stopping the sale of lands in Bohernascrub, Buttevant, Co Cork, after its owner – well-known pedigree Hereford breeder Liam Philpott – presented a 2012 letter stating their loan had been “repaid in full.” The injunction, originally granted on an interim basis in July last year, was extended this week, meaning the land cannot be sold while the...
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
IFA President Francie Gorman has met with the French Ambassador to Ireland, Céline Place, to discuss the EU-Mercosur trade deal and other farming issues, amid ongoing concerns over Ireland’s absence from a recent high-level meeting of EU countries opposed to the agreement.
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
IFA President Francie Gorman has met with the French Ambassador to Ireland, Céline Place, to discuss the EU-Mercosur trade deal and other farming issues, amid ongoing concerns over Ireland’s absence from a recent high-level meeting of EU countries opposed to the agreement.
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Is withdrawing subsidies from older farmers a fair or realistic solution? With one third of farm households in receipt of pension income, would it force much-needed land transfers, or simply leave a generation of rural pensioners financially stranded? https://t.co/4N37thrQ3d
Seventh-generation farmer Gráinne Horan explains how she is expanding her herd, and why traditional breeds – Angus and Hereford – work for their land and system, and why her heart is in suckler farming https://t.co/W97Q9diVxf
France organised a meeting of 10 EU countries on Thursday to discuss a trade deal with Latin America's Mercosur bloc, pushing for the inclusion of an "emergency brake" on farming imports. https://t.co/qRoUdzhoQz
