Agri Politics
The IFA has made contact with the Data Protection Commissioner and has sought a meeting on the issue of its levy agreement form.
The Data Protection Commissioner has been called on by the ICSA to investigate if the reported IFA levies proposal is GDPR compliant.
Rural Life
Kerry farmers will be subject to levies on new farm buildings under draft proposals designed to support the reuse of existing premises.
Agri-Business
IFA is still in the process of meeting the main levy collectors and as of yet has no date as to when it will expect to write out to them to establish a formal written contract of service provision.
Nine months into the job and 12 months on from the pay scandal that rocked the organisation, IFA President Joe Healy sat down with Agriland.
Some 63% of farmers have said that they intend on opting out of paying the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation's (ICBF) levy on cattle tags.
Beef
Earlier this year it was confirmed that farmers would be able to opt out of paying Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) levies when completing cattle tag order forms.
The IFA has accepted that the organisation's current funding principles should be retained for the future.
There should be no levies taken out of farmer's cheques, ICSA President Patrick Kent has said
Some 75% of farmers would not opt-in to pay a farm organisation levy, known as the EIF levy, an Agriland poll has revealed.
Department of Agriculture receipts from Bovine Diseases Levies amounted to €6.52m in 2015, compared with €6.63m in 2014.
ABP has confirmed to Agriland that it is in the process of writing to farmer suppliers this week to offer them the option to ‘opt in’ to the levy collection on behalf of farm organisations.
Bord Bia should suspend its farmer levy until viable markets for cattle carcasses over 420kg can be found, the ICSA Beef Chairman has said.
Opinion
The IFA dash to repudiate the suggestion that beef farmers should pay a specific Teagasc research levy really is a bit rich
