Environment
'Increased payments key for farmers to adapt to future climate challenges'
The IFA has called for increased targeted payments to be made to farmers in order to help them adapt to...
Environment
The IFA has called for increased targeted payments to be made to farmers in order to help them adapt to...
Agri-Business
The practice of below cost selling has brought a new and potentially terminal threat to the Irish fruit and vegetable...
Agri-Business
Supervalu has informed the IFA that they will suspend their current promotional programme, offering free vegetables when roast beef was...
Agri Politics
The fundamental focus of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) review must be on ensuring farmers achieve viable incomes in return...
CAP / Schemes
It is essential that all areas of land that are currently designated as Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) are maintained...
Pig/Poultry
Current pig prices are just covering costs with many pig farmers struggling financially facing into 2017, according to the IFA Pigs...
CAP / Schemes
The Department of Agriculture has agreed to communicate with farmers outlining where issues have arisen on their GLAS plans as...
Rural Life
Farmers’ concerns should be put at the centre of any future development along the Dublin to Galway Greenway, IFA Environment...
CAP / Schemes
IFA President Joe Healy led a protest on behalf of farmers awaiting overdue GLAS payments at the Department of Agriculture...
Sheep
The deadline for the return of completed Sheep Census 2016 forms has been extended to Friday, February 3, the Department of...
Sheep
Current weight and price pressure on lambs have left hogget finishers very frustrated, according to IFA National Sheep Chairman John Lynskey....
Sheep
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed today announced that he would be extending the closing date...
Sheep
The deadline for applications to the €25m Sheep Welfare Scheme closes tomorrow, January 31, despite calls by the IFA to...
CAP / Schemes
The opening of the low-cost loan or Agri Cashflow Loan Scheme for farmers’ applications appears to be drawing closer. A...
Agri-Business
IFA President Joe Healy has accused Supervalu of acting unethically by offering customers free potatoes and carrots when they buy...
Sheep
The IFA National Sheep Chairman John Lynskey has called for the closing date for applications to the Sheep Welfare Scheme to...
Rural Life
The Rural Action Plan launched by the Government yesterday is short of specifics, Independent TD, Michael Fitzmaurice, has said. For...
Agri-Business
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is to appoint a Secretary to in the next few months, IFA President, Joe Healy,...