Cattle16 Sep / 2019
IFA Livestock Chairman Angus Woods has welcomed the extension of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) scheme deadline to 5pm on Friday. He said IFA requested this extension from Minister Creed last week.
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Cattle15 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said that after a difficult weekend of negotiations, a realistic and deliverable agreement has been reached, and will be recommended by all organisations.
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Cattle13 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy welcomed the recommencement of beef talks tomorrow morning. He said it was time to stop the grandstanding and the posturing, and to get down to real talks.
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Cattle13 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy has clarified the IFA position on the 30-month age rule and other criteria applied by factories for farmers to receive a 12c/kg ‘In-spec’ bonus payment.
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Dairy13 Sep / 2019
IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Tom Phelan said the 1c/l cut by Glanbia for August milk to a total payout of 27.04c/l + VAT, the second in as many months, is a major blow to the cash flow and confidence of its suppliers.
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Cattle12 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed needs to extend the closing date for the €100m BEAM scheme until after the Ploughing Championships next week, to allow farmers make their application on the Department of Agriculture stand at the Ploughing. “There has been a strong level of applications this week, which […]
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Pigs12 Sep / 2019
Following reports that a meat processor is involved in importing pork from Poland, a country that is affected by African Swine Fever (ASF), IFA Pigs and Pigmeat Chairman Tom Hogan said there should be an immediate ban on any pork imports from countries affected by ASF in their commercial herd. ASF is a disease which […]
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Cattle11 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said it is time for the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed to tell the meat barons to stop posturing and come forward with proposals to resolve the current impasse in the beef sector.
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Cattle10 Sep / 2019
IFA President Joe Healy said the appointment of Phil Hogan as EU Trade Commissioner comes at a critical time for the farming and food sectors here.
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Cattle06 Sep / 2019
IFA Inputs Project Team Leader John Coughlan has accused Fertilizer Europe (FE) of seriously undermining the competitiveness of EU agriculture and destroying farmers’ incomes. He called on Trade Defence Instruments (TDI) members to vote against the Commission’s proposal to impose antidumping (AD) measures on UAN next Tuesday.
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