The President of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association has said he expects there will be a conclusion reached on the final CAP negotiations later today.

A group representing Irish farmers, the Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association, is calling on the Government to introduce stricter rules on the importation of meat products, following yesterday's foot and mouth scare.

PRODUCING for the marketplace rather than keeping livestock just to maximise the cheque in the post - that’s the prospect held out to farmers as decoupling approaches.

AFTER decades of fattening on EU aid, it was entirely predictable farmers would voice strident opposition to radical reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy sparking a revolution in the farmyard.