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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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ICMSA lashes Department’s ‘ridiculous’ bias in quota allocation
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
COMMENTING on the announcement by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of yet further support for new entrants to dairying, Mr Pat McCormack, Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee, said that he was very disappointed that the Minister had decided to continue with a policy of discrimination against existing small scale milk producers who are already struggling badly due to the deregulation of the dairy market so enthusiastically supported by the same Minister.
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Bryan demands carbon tax and nitrates review
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
IFA President John Bryan has met Environment Minister John Gormley and sought a reversal of the inequitable carbon tax and a review of the unworkable nitrates regulations.
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County second least expensive in country for buying land
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
COUNTY Roscommon is the second least expensive county in the country in which to buy land, after Leitrim.
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Farmers travel to Brussels to explain flooding woes
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A DELEGATION of farmers from Galway, Clare, Roscommon and Westmeath travelled to Brussels last week to outline the extent of the damage caused by last December’s flooding.
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Farmers concerns must be addressed with new environment scheme
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
IFA PRESIDENT John Bryan said this week that he will be contacting the Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith immediately to highlight some serious shortcomings that need to be addressed in the new Agri-Environmental Scheme to replace REPS, which the Department of Agriculture is proposing.
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Farmers urged to act now to extend scarce fodder supplies
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
THE CHAIRMEN of the IFA National Beef and Dairy Committees have come together to make a joint call to farmers to opt for native cereal as the cold weather is set to last.
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Young Farmers Development Group holds seminar
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
ROSCOMMON YOUNG Farmers Development Group, in association with IFAC Accountants, held a seminar in the Percy French Hotel, Strokestown recently.
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Damage to rural roads reaching point of ‘near disintegration’
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
THE CHAIRPERSON of the ICMSA’s Rural Development Committee, Mr John O’ Donnell, has stated that the damage to the local roads network has reached the point of near disintegration and that a major road improvement initiative must be implemented without delay.
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Carbon tax will cost rural jobs
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
IFA DEPUTY President Eddie Downey said the EPA/ESRI Strive report shows how Government policy decisions continue to discriminate massively against rural Ireland.
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Farm prices are below breakeven across all food products
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
A MAJOR study of the food supply chain undertaken by The Irish Farmers’ Association shows that farmers producing everyday food products are operating below breakeven, and on average, they are getting just one third of the final retail price.
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