Managing Ash Dieback – Teagasc provides practical guidance to forest owners
Teagasc’s Forestry Development Department have produced a series of videos to provide objective advice to forest owners whose ash plantations have been affected by ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus), and to highlight the important factors that need to be considered when removing the infected ash trees, and replacing them with alternative tree species. Dr Nuala Ní […]
Teagasc leads the fight against Ash Dieback – Discover Teagasc’s forest research on 16th Oct in Carlow
The Teagasc Forestry Development Department is organising a Teagasc Forest Research Day for tomorrow, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at Teagasc, Oak Park, Carlow. The aim is to showcase forest research within Teagasc. Important research into ash dieback will feature prominently. Ash dieback is a serious fungal disease of ash trees. It has spread rapidly across […]
Farmers With Ash Dieback Must Be Given Option Not To Replant – IFA
IFA Farm Forestry Chair, Vincent Nally said that farmers that have been affected by the ash dieback disease must be given the option not to replant, without penalties. “Many of the farmers affected by ash dieback feel abandoned by this Government”, said Mr. Nally. He said farmers were never been properly compensated for […]
