The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has today rejected accusations that it is misleading the public about the impact of a compromise deal being discussed at the World Trade Organisation.

IRISH farmers and others in the farm and food businesses have been invited to give their views on the proposal to take 13% off their single farm payments, instead of the 5% taken off now, and to spend the extra money on rural development.

AN INTERNET debate on the health check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is being urged by European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel.

EXPORT refunds for the dairy sector will go in 2013, world trade deal or no deal, according to Mariann Fischer Boel, member of the European Commission responsible for agriculture and rural development.

FARMERS who use the internet should visit Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel’s new blog website, and leave a message for the woman who — probably more than anyone else — determines their livelihood.

EUROPEAN Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is in Washington for meetings with leading figures in the administration and Congress on agricultural reform.

EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel seemed surprised to find TDs and senators unhappy about milk prices in Ireland, when she addressed the Oireachtas.

TEARFUL and prayerful, Americans struggled to articulate their emotions yesterday as Pope John Paul II - who visited their country more than any other pontiff - clung to life at the Vatican.

EU lawyers have dismissed charges that EU Farm Commissioner-in-waiting Mariann Fischer Boel faced a conflict of interest because she owns a large farm.