Agri Week podcast 26/10/2023
This week, Agri Week makes the trip to Castle Dargan for the IFA’s Connacht Regional Chairperson hustings. Ronan Flanagan gets to know the two candidates, Kinlough-based James Gallagher and Brendan Golden from Killala, who outline why they feel they should be elected Chairperson. Two members of the Current…
Farmers “disheartened” with Department of Agriculture
A former chair of the Sligo branch of the IFA has said farmers are “disheartened” by the performance of the Minister and the Department of Agriculture to date. Eddie Davitt described the mood amongst farmers as disillusioned, given that prices have declined and the cost of production has almost doubled.…
IFA make calls for coupled payments for suckler and ewe farmers
IFA members were among those that launched a new campaign this week calling for coupled payments for suckler cow and ewe farmers. The campaign was launched earlier this week outside the headquarters of the IFA in Dublin as officials were engaged in lobbying politicians ahead of the vote on the…
local farmers launch new campaign aimed at protecting those in the suckler cow and sheep sectors
Sligo IFA members were among those that launched new camping this week calling for couple payments for Suckler cow and Ewe farmers. The campaign was launched earlier this week outside the headquarters of the IFA in Dublin as IFA officials were engaged in lobbying Politicians ahead of the vote…
Local farm official not happy with broken budget promises
Reacting to Budget 2021, the IFA President Tim Cullinan acknowledged the renewal of essential tax reliefs and the equalisation of the self-employed tax credit with the PAYE credit and the continued funding of farm schemes. Mur Cullinan was quoted as saying that this Budget needed to take into…
Farmer leaders express anger over new lamb tagging system
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has once again been criticised this week in relation to the “ Fully ID” which will require all lambs going to factories and marts to have two tags installed from the first of june. The fully ID move that farming…
Sligo IFA raises concerns over electronic ID tags for lambs
Sligo IFA is raising concerns about the new electronic identification tagging system for lambs. From next June, The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine announced that all sheep moving off a holding must be identified electronically. This will require either a single electronic slaughter tag – where lambs less…