Rural Life
Banks called on to take weather into account amid reports of 'hard-line' approach on farm loans
Banks and other credit institutions are being called on to take an “understanding and reasonable approach” to farm loans and...
Rural Life
Banks and other credit institutions are being called on to take an “understanding and reasonable approach” to farm loans and...
Opinion
I was intrigued by an article published in the Irish Independent a few days ago, claiming that the Department of...
Opinion
Surely dairy farmers have enough gumption to realise that the fixed-price milk contracts now on offer from Glanbia represent a...
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,...
Dairy
Farming on the outskirts of Mallow, Co. Cork, John Fitzgerald mapped his transition from farm manager to owner at a...
N.Ireland
Farmers in Northern Ireland seeking to increase their borrowings in the run-up to Brexit may find themselves undergoing a new...
Agri-Business
The uptake of the Agriculture Cash-flow Support Loan Scheme shows that Irish financial institutions are out of sync with the...
Agri-Business
Benchmarked performance is now the key determinant when it comes to farmers securing finance, according to Bank of Ireland’s Head...
Dairy
The Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has turned down a proposal to extend capital gains tax reliefs to farmers who are...
Agri-Business
Irish farmers are paying too much for credit, the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, has said and he will be...
Agri-Business
IFA presidential candidate Joe Healy has accused the banks and other creditors of heaping misery on vulnerable farming families who...
Agri-Business
New lending to the agriculture sector fell back in the second quarter, but remains consistent over the past three years...
Agri-Business
The vast majority of Irish farmers are operating well within their current overdraft limit, according to Bank of Ireland’s head...
Agri-Business
The Central Bank must act immediately to deliver lower interest rates for farmers and the agri-business sector as a whole,...
Agri-Business
Ireland’s three main banks have given the IFA a firm commitment that they will support farmers in all sectors this year,...
Agri-Business
The levels of debt on Irish farms are only half the European average, according to a new report on the financial...