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Our rural future – Have your say

Posted in Business By Reporter IFA National Rural Development Chair John Curran has encouraged as many farmers as possible to get involved and input into the next phase of Ireland’s rural development policy, Our Rural Future. “The Department of Rural and Community Development has launched an online survey on the next phase of Ireland’s rural development policy, Our Rural Future, which closes on Wednesday, April 2” John Curran said. “It’s fairly comprehensive and asks about the opportunities / challenges facing rural Ireland, as well as what actions the Government should consider to secure a more resilient future for rural communities.”“It’s a chance, as farmers and rural dwellers, to have our say and shape/orientate future policy more toward our liking.” “The timing mightn’t be great with lambing and calving in full swing, but we shouldn’t leave the opportunity behind us. It’s too important – it’s our... Read Article

All TB burden being lumped onto farmers

Posted in Business By Reporter Speaking after the TB Forum meeting last week, the Deputy President of ICMSA, Eamon Carroll, said that the association “had no intention” of asking farmers to accept very significant portions of the proposed TB measures presented at the meeting. Mr. Carroll said the fact that would ‘jump out’ from any reasonable reading of the new proposals was that the whole burden of the surging bTB crisis – financial and regulatory – was to be placed on the farmers with little or no obligations being asked of any other element to the problem. Mr. Carroll said that thousands of farmers were already suffering severe financial distress due to bTB and while some factors were within farmers’ control – very many were simply not. That fact did not seem to occur to the Department based on today’s proposals which seemed to involve... Read Article