CARLOW FINE Gael TD Pat Deering welcomed the EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos to the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture recently but also put a number of pertinent questions to him regarding CAP and other key issues.
AT THE 57th annual general meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Association in the RDS in Dublin recently, IFA president John Bryan said a successful outcome to the negotiations for the CAP post-2013 was vital to achieve the planned growth in the Irish agriculture and food sector, which is crucial to our economic recovery.
ICSA members from around the country gathered in the Ashling Hotel in Dublin recently for the organisation’s AGM.
THE VINTNERS’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) has called for a debate on rural isolation.
IRISH CATTLE and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) sheep chairman Paul Brady has warned those who received a dog this Christmas to carefully consider the potential consequences to the farming community.
AT A recent show and sale in Tullamore, Adamstown Evelyn claimed top prize in the in-calf section.
WITH THE second 50% tranche of the Single Farm Payment Scheme now due, IFA president John Bryan said it is vitally important that all outstanding problems are sorted out without delay and all farmers get their payments before Christmas.
THE IRISH Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) national president Gabriel Gilmartin this week claimed that the strength of the euro could hinder export growth in the next few years.
AS PART of its participation in the Interreg Ivc BIO-EN-AREA Project, the South-East Regional Authority hosted a seminar on Energy Crops, Agricultural & Livestock Biomass recently at the cereals research building in Oak Park, Carlow.
AGRICULTURAL cuts in the budget were described as a direct hit of €50m on farm incomes and flying in the face of the contribution agriculture is making to jobs and exports in the economy.