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IFA salaries: Who are the key players?

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IFA salaries: Who are the key players?

Pat Smith, IFA general secretary, who stepped down last week.

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Deer suspicion in Clare TB outbreak

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Opposition to EU limit on output of electric fences

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Limerick opposition to milk payment formula

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Ban on electro immobilisation angers farmers

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IFA rejects nitrates plan

IFA lays out its election rules

A NINE-POINT code of conduct for the election of the next president and other national officers of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has been drawn up.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2005

Mid West farmers battle to save veterinary laboratory

FARMERS in the Mid West have started the fight to save their regional veterinary laboratory at Knockalisheen, near Limerick City.

Thu, 21 Jul, 2005

Dealers only sale

CATTLE farmers in Co Limerick have demanded equality with livestock dealers when it comes to selling recently purchased livestock.

Thu, 23 Jun, 2005

Farmers look to Government for guide on crops for energy

FARMERS have appealed for government guidance on their possible role in finding alternative sources of energy, as international oil prices continue at levels nearly 2½ times the average of the past 20 years.

Thu, 16 Jun, 2005

Angry Thompson is considering his position

AT least one senior member of the IFA National Council is “considering his future”, after the Association’s marathon Council meeting, where a new organisational structure was adopted.

Thu, 10 Mar, 2005

Plan on nitrates ‘could cost €1bn’

THE cost to farmers of implementing the Government’s draft action programme on nitrates could be over €1 billion, the IFA claimed yesterday.

Tue, 10 Feb, 2004

Bumper payout for some

SOME of the top earning farmers in the country, under the Fischler Mid-Term Reform of the CAP, are looking forward to premia payments on hectares which represent only a fraction of the land area they used during the reference years.

Thu, 27 Nov, 2003

IFA ‘membership’ on hold

NON-FARMING rural dwellers will have to wait before being offered membership of the Irish Farmers Association.

Thu, 20 Nov, 2003

Higher prices for dairy farmers urged

Securing viable milk prices for dairy farmers into the future in the light of CAP reform and the WTO must become the industry’s overriding objective.

Thu, 18 Sep, 2003

IFA demand task force

THE IFA is to ask Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to set up a task force involving the Government and all sectors of the dairy industry.

Thu, 03 Jul, 2003

IFA seeks talks on CAP reform deal

The IFA is to seek an immediate meeting with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern under social partnership to assess the impact of the CAP reform package agreed in Luxembourg last week.

Tue, 01 Jul, 2003

Crucial partnership decision for Dillon and IFA Council

NATIONAL Partnership will top the agenda at next week’s IFA National Council – one of the most crucial yet for President, John Dillon, since he took up office at the beginning of 2002.

Thu, 10 Apr, 2003

IFA’s conference blunder highlights need for hotels to serve Irish food

PATRONISING a hotel without an Irish food policy has become a major faux pas in farming circles and the National Council of the Irish Farmers Association is now red-faced after one of its county executives accused it of holding three farmer conferences in hotels not affiliated to Féile Bia.

Thu, 21 Nov, 2002

Changes to affect sugar beet section

RULES for the IFA Sugar Beet Section have been updated to bring it more closely into line with the Association’s national commodity committees.

Thu, 31 Oct, 2002

IFA reiterates call for 'Yes' to Nice

The Irish Farmers Association has reiterated its support for a 'Yes' vote in this Saturday's re-run of the Nice Treaty referendum.

Wed, 16 Oct, 2002