Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor: ‘An agriculture minister with a vegan lifestyle would be a blast of clean air’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘An agriculture minister with a vegan lifestyle would be a blast of clean air’

Radical politics in Ireland would really mean something if the new Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine held a...
Letter to the editor: Is a ‘blind eye’ being turned across the industry?

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Is a ‘blind eye’ being turned across the industry?

I read with interest a letter to the editor – dating back to August 11 – with regard to the registration...
Letter to the editor: Answers needed to ‘build trust’ in the meat processing industry

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Answers needed to ‘build trust’ in the meat processing industry

I am requesting that Meat Industry Ireland [MII] confirms that all current employees in the meat processing industry were recruited...
Letter to the editor: Why do so many people ‘simply assume that the foal levy has to be paid?’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Why do so many people ‘simply assume that the foal levy has to be paid?’

I rang Weatherbys last week to find out if they are extending the deadline for breeders registering foals this year,...
Letter to the editor: Farm to Fork calls for ‘affordable food’…not ‘cheap food’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Farm to Fork calls for ‘affordable food’…not ‘cheap food’

I refer to the recent letter to the editor about the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy from Bláth Cooney on August...
Letter to the editor: ‘We need to differentiate grass-fed animals from feedlot stock’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘We need to differentiate grass-fed animals from feedlot stock’

The recent publication of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy [and Biodiversity Strategy] is significant. However, while the document is...
Letter to the editor: ‘I have a piece of advice for you…Minister Hackett’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘I have a piece of advice for you…Minister Hackett’

I have read [AgriLand’s] recent interviews with Minister of State Pippa Hackett. These concern me greatly. In particular, I find...
Letter to the editor: ‘A year ago today, I decided that enough was enough…’

Agri Politics

Letter to the editor: ‘A year ago today, I decided that enough was enough…’

A year ago today, I decided that enough was enough. €3/kg [for beef] was staring us in the face and...
Letter to the editor: ‘The forgotten farmers were promised the sun, moon and stars, but…’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘The forgotten farmers were promised the sun, moon and stars, but…’

The last time around, in the previous Programme for Government, the ‘forgotten farmers’ were promised the sun, moon and stars,...
Letter to the editor: ‘I will pay no more towards the foal levy as we get nothing…’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘I will pay no more towards the foal levy as we get nothing…’

I refer to the recent letter from Gerry Callanan regarding the foal levy. I have been paying it for years. I...
Letter to the editor: ‘What have Irish breeders got to show for the foal levy?’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘What have Irish breeders got to show for the foal levy?’

Irish breeders have contributed almost €40 million through the foal levy since it was introduced in 2000. What have Irish...
Letter to the editor: ‘New Deal’ – from the Great Depression – needed for NI farming

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘New Deal’ – from the Great Depression – needed for NI farming

We – in the Farmers For Action group – believe that no one can deny that the UK Chancellor of...
Letter to the editor: Levies for horse breeders are ‘unjust and unfair’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Levies for horse breeders are ‘unjust and unfair’

I would like to highlight to your readers the unfair levy that is charged to breeders of thoroughbred foals. These...
Letter to the editor: ‘Let’s stop blaming US farmers for lower food standards’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Let’s stop blaming US farmers for lower food standards’

The very foundations of Farmers For Action [FFA] depend on avoiding pitching one family farmer against another – no matter where...
Letter to the editor: ‘CCPC has highlighted its own lack of power’

Beef

Letter to the editor: ‘CCPC has highlighted its own lack of power’

The urgency to appoint a new independent beef regulator to investigate market transparency has been made clear by the content...
Letter to the editor: ‘Farmers don’t need more regulations for safety; they need education’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Farmers don’t need more regulations for safety; they need education’

Farmers don’t need more regulations for safety; they need education. Farmers are ageing, so you need to educate the youth....
Letter to the editor: The CCPC should look at ‘all of the evidence’ in the beef industry

Opinion

Letter to the editor: The CCPC should look at ‘all of the evidence’ in the beef industry

We – Independent Farmers of Ireland [IFOI] – wish to make a statement in relation to the response from the...
Letter to the editor: New laws could ‘eliminate supply routes for veterinary medicines’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: New laws could ‘eliminate supply routes for veterinary medicines’

With the implementation date for ‘Regulation (EU) 2019/6 on Veterinary Medicinal Products’ due to come into effect in January 2022,...