The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) are appealing to motorists to take extra care as the number of tractors, trailers and other farm machinery using the roads increases during the summer season. The appeal comes as farmers and contractors have started cutting silage around the country. Both the RSA and […]
With silage cutting season underway, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) are appealing to drivers of farming machinery and other road users to share the road safely. With national travel restrictions now lifted and traffic volumes increasing, the roads are getting much busier. There are more people out walking, cycling, […]
With silage cutting season underway, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) are making a joint appeal to drivers of farming machinery and vulnerable road users to share the road safely. The IFA has already urged farm families to be very vigilant about safety around the farmyard and is now extending […]
Newly-elected IFA Grain Committee chairman Mark Browne is committed to working for the betterment of tillage farmers during his four-year term. Mark, who farms over 300 hectares of cereals, oilseeds and protein crops in conjunction with his brother Garrett in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, succeeded Kildare man Liam Dunne in the chair on Friday, January 12 […]
IFA Inputs Project Team Leader John Coughlan has called on the trade to immediately pass through the significant drop in wholesale fertiliser prices to farmers. Coughlan said, “International wholesale CAN prices have fallen by €30 to €35/t over recent weeks. However, many farmers are not seeing this as importers and many of the larger merchants […]
As well as being one of Cork’s best-known sheep farmers, Sean Dennehy is IFA sheep chairman of Cork Central and a member of the national sheep committee. Sean and his wife Colette farm nearly 250 acres, which is owned and rented, in Shandangan, Carrigadrohid, which is in Cork’s Muskerry and Lee Valley regions. They have […]
With farmers in Ireland getting an increasingly-raw deal and family farms under greater threat than ever, Wicklow IFA chairman Tom Shortt is doing all in his power to give more control back to the primary producer – the most important link in the food chain. We met up with the Newtownmountkennedy tillage farmer to discuss […]
While welcoming the demise of EU milk quotas, IFA National Dairy Committee chairman and North Cork dairy farmer Sean O’Leary is urging dairy farmers to thread carefully and not to set unrealistic goals for themselves. March 31 last was a red-letter day for the country’s estimated 18,000 dairy farmers as it marked the lifting of […]
A firm believer in the saying that ‘you only get out of an organisation what you put into it’, Pat Keane was recently elected Chairman of the IFA’s Waterford Livestock Committee and he told Irish Tractor & Agri magazine he is looking forward to speaking out on behalf of the county’s Livestock farmers. The IFA’s […]
Elected chairman of the IFA Farm Forestry Association two years ago, Michael Fleming is enjoying every minute of the challenging workload the office brings. A member of the IFA for the past 20 years, the Kerry native made his way up through the ranks as county representative, Munster representative and vice-chairman before taking over in […]
