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…
Sligo IFA say it’s unlikely farmers will receive GLAS payments before Christmas
The County Sligo IFA rural development chairman has called on the Minister for Agriculture to honour promises of payment of money to farmers under the GLAS scheme. Eddie Davitt says farmers had hoped to receive money before Christmas but this now seemed unlikely. And he says a lot of these…
Voting for new Connacht Chair to start later this month
The election of a new Regional Chairperson for the IFA in Connacht should be known later this month with voting and debating set to start on Monday week the 20th of June in Leitrim. The two candidates are of course Sligo’s former county Chair Eddie Davitt and the county Chair…