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Deadline looms for Covid-19 payment break applications

September 22, 2020

Farmers are being reminded that applications for the Covid-19 Payment Break close next Wednesday, September 30. Issuing the reminder, Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA)…

Bank of Ireland appoints new head of agri sector

June 16, 2020

Agri-Business

Bank of Ireland has appointed Eoin Lowry as head of the agricultural sector on its Business Banking team. Lowry takes on the role…

Calls for extension of farmer repayments moratorium

May 26, 2020

Rural Life

There have been calls for banks to extend the moratorium on farmers’ repayments into the traditional “settling up” period in the autumn. The…

‘Banks must give farmers greater flexibility and more options’

March 25, 2020

Agri-Business

Banks have been called on to give farmers greater flexibility and more options in light of Covid-19. Tim Cullinan, the president of the…

Banks agree to payment break for customers affected by Covid-19

March 19, 2020

Agri-Business

Irish banks have agreed to a payment break for up to three months for business and personal customers affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19),…

‘Move towards cashless society hitting rural areas’

February 1, 2020

Rural Life

The move towards a cashless society is happening at a speed that is not working for rural areas, said Macra na Feirme national…

‘Mediation must be made mandatory’ for families in debt

December 20, 2018

Rural Life

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and the Central Bank have been called on to put mechanisms in place that would make mediation mandatory…

Winter finishers may not draw down approved stocking loans

September 6, 2018

Agri-Business

Winter finishers who have received approval for stocking loans this year may not draw down the funds, some of Ireland’s leading banks have…

IFA president slates minister’s vulture fund comments

August 17, 2018

Agri Politics

A leading farm lobby group has blasted the Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and…

Creed discusses drought plans with commissioner and banks

July 24, 2018

CAP / Schemes

Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine Michael Creed met with EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, as well as the country’s pillar banks,…

‘Faceless vultures are hell-bent on destroying farm families’

April 25, 2018

Rural Life

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has announced a significant escalation in its campaign against vulture funds trying to force farm families to sell…

Banks called on to take weather into account amid reports of ‘hard-line’ approach on farm loans

April 10, 2018

Rural Life

Banks and other credit institutions are being called on to take an “understanding and reasonable approach” to farm loans and overdrafts. This is…

Do farmers need identity cards? ….I don’t think so

September 2, 2017

Opinion

I was intrigued by an article published in the Irish Independent a few days ago, claiming that the Department of Agriculture, Food and…

Glanbia fixed price offer – you’d be a fool not to take it

August 19, 2017

Opinion

Surely dairy farmers have enough gumption to realise that the fixed-price milk contracts now on offer from Glanbia represent a genuine ‘penalty kick’…

‘There remains an ongoing market failure within the Irish banking system’

August 4, 2017

Agri-Business

There remains an ongoing market failure within the Irish banking system, the Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA’s) Farm Business Chairman, Martin Stapleton, recently said. This…