Agri-Business
Cultivate loan applications worth over €50m in 2023
The total value of Cultivate loan applications almost doubled in just two years to over €50 million in 2023. Cultivate...
Credit Union
Agri-Business
National Cultivate Week to take place next week
National Cultivate Week will return next week from April 8 to April 14. Cultivate is an initiative of a group...
Agri-Business
Cultivate Credit Union loan applications increase by 33%
Cultivate Credit Unions has announced the inaugural National Cultivate Week, a celebration of the credit unions’ commitment to the farming...
Agri-Business
Beef farmers make up majority of Cultivate loan applications
Cultivate, the collaborative credit union finance lending platform for farmers, released analysis of its 2021 loan applications, which shows that...
Agri-Business
Fertiliser loan scheme with Cultivate to begin on January 31
Cultivate chairman and former president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Joe Healy, has confirmed that the organisation’s ‘fertiliser loan’...
Rural Life
Credit unions argue Central Bank capital requirements are 'unjustified'
Capital requirements on Irish credit unions are “excessive and unjustified” relative to the risk profile of the Irish credit union...
Agri-Business
Four more credit unions join farm lending initiative
Cultivate has announced that its credit union farm lending product is now available in 11 new locations, bringing to 88...
Agri-Business
Beef farmers accounted for nearly 70% of Cultivate farm loan applications in 2020
Beef farmers accounted for 69% of Credit Union Cultivate farm loan applications in 2020, according to new analysis. Cultivate, the...
Agri-Business
'Tullow Tank' to unveil new agri loan at Carlow Credit Union
A new agricultural loan facility is set to be launched in the south-east of the country as Carlow Credit Union...
Rural Life
Cork women's farming forum to focus on work/life balance
Skibbereen and Bandon Credit Union will host their second of a series of Women in Agriculture Forums in the West Cork...
Rural Life
Stabilisation fund levy for credit unions signed in by Donohoe
The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, has today, November 8, signed into law new credit union levy regulations. The Credit...
Agri-Business
7 Credit Unions to offer new farm loans in the midlands
Seven Credit Unions in the midlands have recently come together to offer a new farm-lending product called ‘Cultivate’. The Cultivate...
Agri-Business
Cork credit union opens 'unprecedented' fodder scheme
Skibbereen and Bandon Credit Union has announced the opening of a new ACRE fodder scheme which aims to alleviate pressures...