Agri Politics
Connacht IFA chair has said because the focus has been on "climate and the environment" which has left farmers feeling "battered and bruised"
Counting of votes for the election of three Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) regional chair...
The IFA is in election mode and three of the IFA's four regional chairperson positions are up for grabs apart from the top job election.
Rural Life
Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow weather warning ahead of the arrival of more heavy rain in Munster and Connacht.
Agri-Business
A lobby campaign has been launched to prevent fodder shortages and to demand further government support, the Connacht regional chair said.
Plans are in motion to break the Connacht record for the number of participants in a tractor run in Corofin, Co. Galway, this weekend.
Other
Farm incomes in the west of the country are over €27,000 lower than those of their counterparts in Munster and Leinster, figures from the Revenue for 2014 show.
Sligo IFA is to meet on Monday next, July 4, in order to vote for the next Connacht IFA Chairman after the meeting was postponed last week.
Sligo IFA was due to meet tonight to vote for a candidate for the Connacht Chairman position, however due to a bereavement it's been postponed.
After several months of wrangling, Connacht is set to have new Chairman as voting gets underway in the region tonight for a representative.
Connacht IFA will have an elected representative in place by Friday June 24, after several months of controversy in the region.
Yara Ireland has appointed Stephen Mullin to its commercial team to cover Connacht and North Leinster in order to build its local on-farm presence in the regions.
A new land market report has highlighted a growing divergence in Ireland's Agricultural land market with prices growing in the East and South while slumping in the West and North.
IFA has announced that voting in the election of the new Connacht Chairman will take place at five county executive meetings in the region in mid-June.
County Chairmen from the five Connacht counties, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim, will today be voting for a Connacht IFA Chairman.
The deadline for nominations for the position of IFA Treasurer was this morning and the IFA has confirmed that there were two nominations.
Two months on from the deadline for nominations for Connacht IFA Chair, the region remains in deadlock with no candidate fitting the criteria.
Connacht IFA county representatives were told at this week's Executive Council to sort out their own house for the regional position.
Voting gets underway tonight for the position of Munster IFA Chairman with the first County Executive meeting takes place in West Cork.
Sligo IFA has submitted a proposal to IFA HQ requesting a rotating Connacht Chairman every two years as a resolution to the current deadlock in the region.
Farmers in Connacht could be left without a regional chair, as it currently looks as if no candidate will pull out of the race.
Five candidates have been nominated once again in the region for the position of Connacht IFA Chair.
Following county executive meetings in Galway and Roscommon last night, a candidate from each county was nominated for the Connacht Chair position.
