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Funding of €200k awarded to five organisations building green Irish communities

Five organisations building green sustainable Irish communities have received €200,000 from the GLAS Communities Fund. Awardees of the funding - which is a result of a collaboration between from Rethink Ireland and Ornua - include Community Hydration Hub...

15 Nov 2021 at 13:43

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Minister issued with warning over GLAS

Issues over farmersâ€™ participation in the new GLAS Scheme have been addressed by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) this week. Andrew McHugh, County Longford IFA Chairman, expressed concern over Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon...

04 Dec 2014 at 12:00

Local News

Early start for GLAS balancing payments

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has announced that GLAS balancing payments will commence early. Over €26m in GLAS balancing payments have started to issue to over 42,300 farmers who are participating in the...

26 Apr 2020 at 10:00

Farming

Lismacaffrey farmer loses out in bid to become ICSA National President

...equation.” “I am demanding a massive increase in the payment under agri-environment schemes. We want to see the budget for GLAS trebled in a new and much more ambitious agri-environment scheme that properly rewards those who go further for the...

18 Dec 2020 at 08:25

Farming

Longford farmers breathe sigh of relief as deadline for fertiliser and slurry spreading extended

...is to maximise fodder production at home and I believe the Fodder Production Incentive Measure for Tillage Farmers and GLAS flexibilities will contribute positively.” Longford Cllr Micheál Carrigy welcomed the measures announced by Minister Creed....

16 Aug 2018 at 15:00

Business

Push for further talks on CAP and Rural Development Plan funding

...be resolved such as clarity on the stocking of commonages including opposition to the 80% stocking rule, payment levels for GLAS measures and details of eligible items for grant aid under TAMS II,” the local chief continued. “It is important that all...

26 Jun 2014 at 16:45

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Longford Leader Farming: Funding to RDP must be spent

...arisen in recent years do not recur into the future. “It is important that the Minister for Agriculture pays out as much GLAS money over the coming months to the 50,000 farmers in the scheme to avoid eating into the 2018 allocation,” he added. “The...

07 Nov 2017 at 19:00

Local News

IFA raise GLAS and TAMS extension with Department of Agriculture

IFA Rural Development Chairman Michael Biggins said that 36,000 farmers, who are currently in GLAS 1 and 2, need certainty that their plans will be extended into 2021 and beyond if necessary, under EU CAP Transitional rules. “It is vitally important that...

19 Oct 2020 at 12:00

Farming

Longford GLAS payments due last December now scheduled for mid-Summer

... the BPS which has seen improvements over the last number of years but he noted there are specific issues relating to GLAS and TAMS that need to be addressed immediately. “In relation the GLAS, the final balancing payment is unlikely to...

11 Mar 2018 at 11:11

Farming

Longford Leader Farming: IFA reacts to ANC Review

... most of which are hill farms,” he added. “The payments of ANC along with other direct payments supports such as BPS and GLAS represent a significant proportion of overall farm income in the areas that are classified as ANC.”

02 Dec 2018 at 14:00

Local News

Longford Leader Farming: GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme now open

... The Heritage Council manages the scheme on behalf of the Department, and it is open to applicants who participate in the GLAS. The scheme helps demonstrate that sensitive conservation action and management by farmers safeguards these habitats and...

31 Jan 2022 at 08:00

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Longford IFA to commence lobbying for a fair, sustainable agri-food sector

...to ensure that Pillar II schemes such as Areas of Natural Constraint (ANCs); Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environmental Scheme (GLAS); Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS); Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP – suckler cows); the Sheep...

31 Aug 2021 at 17:00

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