TENS of thousands of farmers’ wives have been denied pensions in their own right, because of how their partnership in the farm was legally defined.

HUGE progress has been made in negotiations with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Revenue on spouses’ partnerships as a means of providing women working on farms with a non-means-tested pension in their own right, the IFA disclosed yesterday.

FARMERS were urged yesterday to take special care during the current busy period on their farms.

THE farmers of Ireland have brought a little bit of the countryside into the heart of Dublin for Christmas.

FARMERS were urged yesterday to cover their heads while working in the sunshine as a precaution against skin cancer.