Rural Development13 Jun / 2019
IFA Rural Development Chairman Joe Brady has described as unacceptable that the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed is sitting on applications for TAMS grants for farmers who applied in the last tranche of the scheme which closed in early April.
Read More
Cattle13 Jun / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy has called on the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to intervene at the highest levels in Brussels to stop a bad EU-Mercosur trade deal, which would do untold damage to our €3bn beef and livestock sector.
Read More
Farm Family11 Jun / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said progress on the Fair Deal Scheme is important for farm families who have been waiting nearly five years for the Government to make good on a commitment to remove discrimination against family farms and small business.
Read More
Farm Family10 Jun / 2019
Speaking only days before the first co-ops decide their May milk prices, IFA National Dairy Chairman Tom Phelan today (Monday) said that a price increase of at least 1c/l was justified in most cases, especially for those co-ops which have been paying less than the Ornua PPI equivalent for the last few months. “All indicators […]
Read More
Environment & Rural Affairs10 Jun / 2019
IFA has requested a meeting with Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed to progress proposals for the introduction of a Sustainability Development Programmes, as part of IFA’s submission to the early mid-term review of the nitrates derogation.
Read More
Farm Family10 Jun / 2019
To mark Men’s Health Week (Jun 10th-16th), IFA National Farm Family & Social Affairs Chair Caroline Farrell said a farmers’ health is the most important asset to their farm business and encouraged everyone to make small changes to improve their health and wellbeing.
Read More
Horticulture07 Jun / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy has called on consumers and retailers to support the Irish strawberry sector – a vital indigenous industry worth €47m at farm gate, with 57 growers producing over 8,000 tonnes annually.
Read More
Cattle07 Jun / 2019
IFA National Livestock Chairman Angus Woods said the proposal from the Department of Agriculture to change the equations in the classification machines at meat plants, which determine the conformation and fat score of cattle, rewards factories over farmers and is totally unacceptable.
Read More
Cattle06 Jun / 2019
Reacting to the draft EU regulation on the €100m Brexit beef fund circulated in Brussels today, IFA President Joe Healy said Minister Creed must reject all conditionality in the draft regulation that does not relate to the actual income losses experienced by beef and suckler farmers. This draft regulation reflects the preliminary views of the […]
Read More
Cattle06 Jun / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said the refusal of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) to adjudicate on IFA’s complaint about adverts taken out by the Go Vegan movement means that such adverts are completely unregulated.
Read More
More Recent News Articles
 |
 |
 |
 |
Featured
IFA Member Services
IFA Member Services is the IFA division that is dedicated to providing a range of competitively priced services for all IFA Members to avail of.
