Agri Week Feature interview with National Vice Chairman of the Irish Beef & Lamb Association
This week’s edition of Agri Week features an extensive interview with the National Vice Chairman of the Irish Beef and Association, Gerard Pilkington. In the interviews discuses with John Lynch why their association have rebranded the Beef Plan Movement, how they intend to provide representation for all farmers (beef…
Sligo farming official backs calls for beef regulator
A Sligo based high ranking official of a new national farming body has backed calls for the immediate appointment of a beef ombudsman or regulator. The appointment of such a position was discussed the Dáil this week. The Minister for Agriculture, Donegal TD Charlie McConalogue is believed to…
Agri Week October 15th 2020
On this week’s edition of Agri Week: The IFA President Tim Cullinan, welcomes the recent results from a vote in the European Parliament that emphasises that the EU-Mercosur agreement cannot be ratified as it stands. The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has hardened its position in…
Agriculture Minister ‘quick to criticise’ farmers according to Beef Plan Movement Leitrim Chair
The Minister for Agriculture is ‘quick to criticise farmers’ according to the Leitrim Chairperson of the Beef Plan Movement. Brendan Barry is making the comments following Minister Michael Creed saying that the actions of some farmers this week as ‘totally unacceptable.’ Clashes outside the Department of Agriculture on Monday saw…
Beef Plan Movement call on Minister Creed to ensure legal action dropped
The Sligo chairman of the Beef Plan Movement, Gerard Pilkington, says farmers in his group he has spoken to have not got any written confirmation that legal actions and threats against them by meat processors have been dropped. That’s despite Cormac Healy from the processors’ group Meat Industry Ireland insisting…