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2010-03-11 : GUARANTEED MINIMUM FLOOR PRICE CRITICAL BEFORE SOWING

IFA National Grain Committee Chairman Noel Delany has said that no farmer should take out spring cereal seed unless he can secure agreement on a minimum floor price for this year’s harvest or they have a higher value market for their grain, such as farm-to-farm trade.

2010-03-10 : GLANBIA CO-OP MOVE IS POSITIVE FOR FARMER CONTROL AND GREATER DAIRY INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION - BRYAN

IFA President John Bryan today (Wed) said the proposal by Glanbia Co-op to purchase the Irish business of Glanbia Plc is a welcome development which holds out the prospect of outright farmer ownership of Ireland’s largest milk pool, as well as much greater direct farmer control of the Irish dairy industry, facilitating greater consolidation and cost efficiency.

2010-03-09 : GREENCORE CANNOT AXE LOYAL BARLEY GROWERS WITHOUT REDRESS

Traditional malting barley growers who have had their contracts terminated by Greencore without notice or redress will vent their anger at a protest at the company’s EGM in Dublin this morning (Tues). The meeting is being held to approve the sale of the malting business to French co-op Axereal.

2010-03-09 : PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME TO REPLACE REPS UNWORKABLE UNLESS MAJOR CHANGES ARE MADE

IFA Rural Development Committee Chairman Tom Turley said that the proposed Agri-Environment Options Scheme is unworkable unless major changes are made to the specifications used to implement the scheme. “Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith must introduce flexibilities that allow the AEOS to be meaningful for the vast majority of the 10,000 farmers who finish their REPS 3 contracts before the mid-May Single Farm Payment application date.”

2010-03-09 : SINGLE AGENCY FOR FLOOD MANAGEMENT MUST BE PRIORITY - SILKE

The Chairman of the IFA Flood Project Team Michael Silke appeared before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment to set out the measures needed to avoid the devastation caused by the extensive flooding across the country last November.

2010-03-09 : IFA DEMAND MAXIMUM INCLUSION OF NATIVE GRAIN - BRYAN

IFA President John Bryan has called on livestock, dairy, sheep and pig farmers to demand the maximum inclusion of high quality native grain when purchasing compound feeds in a show of support for Irish tillage growers. In addition, the IFA President said “farmers have an opportunity to buy quality native grain at excellent value direct from tillage farmers to get over the current fodder shortages.”

2010-03-08 : IFA SAYS FARM INCOME AND CREDIT CRISIS AT BREAKING POINT

Following the longest and most severe winter in decades and sustained loss making milk, beef, pig and grain prices, the IFA President John Bryan said the income and cash flow crisis on tens of thousands of farms all over the country is at breaking point.

2010-03-04 : MINISTER MUST ENSURE REALISTIC COLLECTION CHARGES FOR FALLEN ANIMALS

Commenting on the findings of the extensive, countrywide IFA survey of collection charges for fallen animals, Animal Health Project Team leader John Waters said farmers are seeing the benefits of competition in areas with more realistic fees being charged.

2010-03-03 : IFA WELCOMES INCLUSION OF TRADING SCHEME PURCHASERS

IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Kevin Kiersey today (Tues) said it was thanks to IFA representations that farmers who have purchased milk quota as New Entrants in the Milk Quota Trading Scheme over the last few years will now be eligible to apply for free quota under the 2010 New Entrants’ scheme.

2010-03-03 : BRAZILIAN BEEF STOPPED AT EUROPEAN PORTS FOR BREACHING EU STANDARDS

Reacting this week to the revelation that 12 containers of Brazilian beef were stopped at European ports because a sanitary certificate was falsified, IFA National Livestock Chairman Michael Doran said this was another serious breach of EU standards by the Brazilians.
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