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Longford husband and wife lucky to be alive following farmyard incident

A Longford farmer has spoken out about the dangers of methane gasses when agitating slurry. Mervyn Clendenning and his wife Iris were lucky to come out with their lives following an incident on their farm where both were overcome by the fumes coming ...

31 Aug 2021 at 19:00

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WATCH| Farmers encouraged to contact department for slurry spreading extensions

Roscommon TD, Michael Fitzmaurice, issued calls for an extension to slurry spreading deadlines at a meeting in the Dáil on Tuesday, October 15. Mr Fitzmaurice said in an address to the department, “There is slurry in sheds at the moment, farmers ...

16 Oct 2019 at 18:10

Farming

Extension sought on slurry deadline for Longford farmers

The organisation says there are over 7000 farmers in a nitrates derogation, the majority of whom are dairy farmers. “The new rules applied to the derogation this year insist that farmers in a derogation must have over 50% of their slurry spread ...

01 Jun 2018 at 19:00

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Longford Leader Farming: A slurry 'no-brainer' for farmers

As well as this, the most recent derogation review saw an increase in the organic nitrogen excretion rate of a dairy cow from 85kg N to 89kg K per cow, which will push some farms closer to the 170kg N/ha limit. Greenhouse gases Around 33% of ...

28 Dec 2020 at 10:00

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