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2013-04-23

GOVT INACTION ON RETAIL LEGISLATION UNACCEPTABLE - IFA
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.

2012-10-08

AGRI INDUSTRY CLOSES DOWN IN SUPPORT OF FARMERS’ DAY OF ACTION
With major EU decisions to be taken in the next few months that will define the future of the farming sector in Ireland, the vast majority of dairy co-ops, beef, lamb, pig and poultry processors, grain merchants and livestock marts will close to accepting farm produce on Tuesday 9th October.

2012-09-13

POTATO GROWERS PRESENT PROPOSALS TO MINISTER MCENTEE ON POTATO PROMOTIONS STRATEGY AND FUNDING
Members of the IFA Potato Committee presented proposals to the Minister for State with responsibility for Horticulture Shane McEntee on a potato promotions strategy and the mechanism to fund it.

2012-07-11

POTATO GROWERS CUT PLANTING AS PRICE RETURN DROPS
IFA National Potato Chairman Thomas Carpenter said nobody should be surprised that potato production fell by 15% last year. Reacting to the latest CSO figures which show the area of potatoes planted in 2011 was down 1,800 hectares compared to 2010, he said the low return from the marketplace was responsible for the drop in plantings.
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National Potato Conference & Trade Show 2012

Please click here for National Potato Conference & Trade Show 2012 Programme.

Please click here for the presentation by David Berry, Commercial Director, Kantar Worldpanel "Potato Market Change - Retail Influences".

Please click here for the presentation by Lorcan Bourke, Horticulture Division - Bord Bia "Putting Potatoes Back on the Table".

Please click here for the presentation by Thomas Carpenter, IFA Potato Chairman - "Growers' Input in a Changing Marketplace".

Please click here by the presentation by Marcel de Sousa, Managing Director, Irish Potato Marketing "Seed Potato Exports: A New Opportunity?"/

Please click here for the presentation by John Sarup, Independent Potato Agronomist/Consultant "Minimising Losses due to Blackleg in Potatoes".

Please click here for the presentation by Denis Griffin, Potato Breeder, Teagasc "Seed Potato Production - Husbandry Guidelines"

Please click here for the presentation by Gordon Rennick, Pesticide & Registration & Control, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Please click here for the Potato Conference 2012 Booklet.

 
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