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Schedule For In – Person Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme Training Days Announced

Posted by on September 11, 2024 · Leave a Comment 

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has announced the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme in person training schedule. According to data from the SCEP online training portal 46% of farmers who are part of the programme have already completed their compulsory training online in advance of the November deadline.  When it was […]

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Decision to Suspend Scottish Timber Imports on Threat of Bark Beetle the Right Call

Posted by on August 30, 2024 · Leave a Comment 

IFA Farm Forestry Chair Padraig Stapleton praised the decision taken by the Department to suspend Scottish timber imports following the discovery of larch bark beetles at a port in Cork.   We would have liked to see this in place before now, but the discovery of the bark beetle at Cork Port meant action had […]

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Lamb Price Cuts Must Stop – IFA

Posted by on July 15, 2024 · Leave a Comment 

Highlighting that the level of cuts to lamb prices by factories must be stopped following a meeting of the IFA National Sheep committee, Aidan Gallagher, IFA National Sheep Chair said:   “Members reflected the huge anger, frustration and despondency of sheep farmers at the depth and speed of the price cuts exerted by factories on lamb […]

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