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| | | Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine this afternoon (Tues), IFA President John Bryan said farmers are very disappointed with the Government’s delay in the publication of the Consumer and Competition Bill, which is to include a Statutory Code of Practice for the Grocery Goods Sector. |
| |  | Addressing farmers who protested outside the EU Ministerial meeting on trade taking place in Dublin Castle today (Thurs), IFA Deputy President Eddie Downey said trade deals must not be allowed damage our important agricultural sector, and particularly our beef, pigs and poultry sectors. |
| | | IFA National Pigs and Pig Meat Committee Chairman Pat O Flaherty said it was a very positive move by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to extend the deadline for submission of applications under the revised TAMS Sow Housing Scheme until the 3rd of May 2013. |
| | | IFA National Pigs and Pig meat Committee Chairman Tim Cullinan said it was very infuriating that a number of the smaller pig meat processors used the Christmas period as an opportunity to drop pig prices. “This is particularly frustrating considering that as the end of the year was approaching, a large number of farmers were trying to complete the structural work required to comply with EU regulations on sow housing.” |
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Revised Sow Welfare Scheme |
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IFA Pigs Committee Pigs Protest |
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