Tag: tipperary agriculture

  • TB Compensation Improvements Should Be Implemented Immediately – ICMSA

    Reacting to the new TB compensation arrangements after a further meeting with Department of Agriculture, Food & Marine officials, the ICMSA Deputy President, Mr. Pat McCormack, said that the improvements to the TB Income Supplement Scheme and the inclusion of dairy farmers in the Hardship Scheme need to be introduced with immediate effect as any delay…

  • ICMSA President says “no sign whatsoever” that any of the parties understand problems facing farming and wider rural sector

    ICMSA President, John Comer, was dismissive of the attention and focus that all parties have given to the problems currently confronting both the farming community and the wider rural sector.  Mr Comer said that there was no sign whatsoever that any candidates, including those from the main parties, even understood the problems much less had…

  • IFA APPEALS TO DOG OWNERS TO KEEP DOGS UNDER CONTROL AT ALL TIMES

    IFA National Sheep Chairman John Lynskey has warned dog owners to keep their pets under control at all times as marauding dogs can inflict horrendous damage on a sheep flock in an attack. He said the country’s 34,000 sheep farmers are currently preparing to lamb down 2.4m ewes and pregnant ewes on the point of…

  • MINISTER COVENEY MUST ACT ON GLAS REJECTION LETTERS

    IFA Rural Development Chairman Flor McCarthy has called on the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to immediately intervene with his Department which is currently sending out rejection letters to 2,500 farmers for the second phase of GLAS. Flor McCarthy said it is unacceptable that these farmers are being told that they are ineligible for GLAS…

  • FARMERS WANT TO KNOW MINISTER’S VIEW ON COMPETITION ISSUE

    Following the IFA Rally outside Slaney Meats in Bunclody, Co Wexford yesterday, IFA National Livestock Chairman Henry Burns has acknowledged today’s move by the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney that he will write to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) about the ABP investment in Slaney Meats. He said, “Farmers want to know what…

  • LIQUID MILK SUSTAINABILITY IN QUESTION AS IFA PREDICTIONS COME TO PASS

    Speaking from this week’s meeting of the National Milk Agency, at which he presented Chairman Denis Murphy and CEO Muiris O Ceidigh with the IFA Liquid Milk Producers’ Petition, IFA National Liquid Milk Committee Chairman Teddy Cashman said many of the predictions made last Autumn by the Committee had by now come to pass. Speaking…

  • MINISTER HAS TO ADDRESS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES ON PRICE AND WEIGHTS

    IFA National Livestock Committee Chairman Henry Burns said IFA has always supported the producer group concept, but Minister Coveney has to address the fundamental issues on price and weights. He said the way the meat factories are imposing weight limit and age penalties on our best farmers and quality stock is a complete breach of…

  • IFA Election looms as each member has single vote

    The IFA Executive Council has agreed a number of rule changes ahead of the national elections that will take place in April.   The Executive Council has decided to move to One Member One Vote (OMOV), instead of a weighted branch vote, for the election of the next President and Deputy President of the IFA.…

  • Farming Community abandoned by failure to process payments – McGrath

    Independent TD Mattie McGrath has described as completely outrageous the unwillingness of both the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney and the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Tom Hayes to acknowledge the scale of the difficulties farmers are experiencing through delays in receiving basic farm payments. Deputy McGrath was speaking as a prolonged…

  • MINISTER’S COMMITMENT TO EXTEND €5M FUND WELCOME BUT MUST GO FURTHER

    MINISTER’S COMMITMENT TO EXTEND €5M FUND WELCOME BUT MUST GO FURTHER

    IFA Flood Project Chairman Tom Turley today welcomed the announcement from Minister for Agriculture and Defence Simon Coveney that the €5m fund for businesses affected by flooding will be extended to businesses not subject to commercial rates. Tom Turley said this will include some farm businesses such as equestrian centres which have been badly hit…