WITH the executive-pay crisis threatening to rip the Irish Farmers’ Association asunder, it would not be surprising if further revelations come to light concerning the pay, pensions and perks of those at the top of Ireland’s most powerful lobby group. Moreover, with some irate farmers already cancelling their membership, the danger that it could be riven by the proverbial ‘split’, a cancer which has destroyed many an Irish organisation in the past, cannot be dismissed.

Farm businesses must not be burdened with additional water costs following the Government’s recent decision to reduce charges to households, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned.

Early milk price setting co-ops have a crucial responsibility, the Irish Farmers’ Association claimed yesterday.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has met with Phil Hogan, the incoming European commissioner for agriculture and rural development.

Kepak has agreed to rescind half the price cut imposed on pig farmers last week, the Irish Farmers’ Association announced yesterday, following a meeting with the company at its plant in Cavan.

An immediate meeting between the Irish Farmers’ Association and the meat factories should be convened by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

It was farmers’ number-one concern when Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney recently met with the Irish Farmers’ Association

For the last four years, the Irish Farmers’ Association has played an active part in the lobbying effort to persuade EU institutions to ease some of the burden of superlevy on expanding dairy farmers before quota abolition, in light of the fast-expanding international dairy demand.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been urged by the Irish Farmers’ Association to immediately intervene at the highest levels in Brussels to protect the beef industry.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has called on Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to open the GLAS scheme in time to start contracts for all of 2015.