Tillage
Private Members' Bill will seek introduction of crisis tillage fund
The votes of Independent TDs will help secure the passing of a Fianna Fail Private Members’ Bill, seeking the establishment...
Tillage
The votes of Independent TDs will help secure the passing of a Fianna Fail Private Members’ Bill, seeking the establishment...
CAP / Schemes
The Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) review must ensure that no farmer who currently qualifies for the scheme will lose out, Fianna...
Agri Politics
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has been called on to commit to a lowering of the Pillar 1 CAP ceiling...
Agri-Business
Fianna Fail’s agriculture Spokesman Charlie McConalogue is calling for the appointment of a food tsar, or ombudsman, in Ireland. “This...
Agri-Business
The specific implications of Brexit for Irish agriculture must be worked through as part of the next CAP review negotiations,...
Tillage
The current government continues to blatantly overlook the needs of Irish tillage farmers, according to Fianna Fail Agriculture Spokesman Charlie...
CAP / Schemes
To date 1,566 cases have been identified as having an Area of Natural Constraints (ANCs) area over declaration and received...
Agri-Business
To date in 2016, 1,503 farmers have received land eligibility penalties under the basic payment scheme totalling just over €380,000,...
CAP / Schemes
Budgetary constraints look set to hinder the opening of a National Reserve Scheme in 2017. The scheme, which had over...
CAP / Schemes
Many farmers will face increased cashflow problems as a result in delays in Rural Development Programme (RDP) payments, Fianna Fail’s...
Tillage
Fianna Fail Agriculture Spokesman Charlie McConalogue has accused the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed of abandoning those cereal growers who...
CAP / Schemes
Almost 4,300 TAMS II approvals have been issued by the Department of Agriculture and just 274 farmers have submitted claims...
CAP / Schemes
Fianna Fail Agriculture Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue has said that he is shocked at the likely €377m underspend in GLAS payments....
Environment
Ministers Creed and Coveney have been slammed for refusing to argue for an extension to the slurry spreading deadline for...
Agri-Business
Farmers will be disappointed by the failure of the Government to increase Area of Natural Contraint (ANC) payments in Budget...
CAP / Schemes
Minister Creed has confirmed that the allocated funding levels available under the Area of Natural Constraints (ANC) scheme for the...
Tillage
Fianna Fail spokesperson on Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue has called on Minister Michael Creed to make a strong case on behalf...
Tillage
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has stopped short of ruling out an European funded aid package for tillage farmers....