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IFA Meets Department Of Agriculture On Regional Vet Labs
Meeting with senior Department of Agricul- ture officials recently, IFA President Joe Healy said the current Region- al Veterinary Laboratory structure is
recognised
internationally as the op- timum disease surveil- lance structure and must be built on to enhance the services already provided to farmers and the agri- culture industry.
He said, as a leading exporter of farm produce, Irish farmers invest heav- ily in ensuring the highest health and welfare stand- ards of our animals which is vital to optimise the highest value export mar- kets for our produce. The Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed and his Department must support these efforts and invest- ments by upgrading all
IFA Secures Assurance That GLAS Blockages To BPS Applications Will Be Removed
IFA has received as- surance from the Depart- ment of Agriculture that blockages to BPS ap- plications due to GLAS anomalies will be re- moved early next week, allowing all farmers to make their applications. Richard Kennedy said some farmers could not make their BPS appli- cation online as their GLAS payments were delayed or they had not yet been approved for GLAS III. He said IFA has today received assur-
ance that this situation will be resolved early next week. Richard Kennedy said that to-date more than 55,000 farmers have ap- plied for BPS, 90% of whom have applied on- line.
Farmers have until Monday, May 15th
to
apply for BPS, as well as the transfer of entitle- ments, the National Re- serve and Young Farmer Scheme. The deadline for amending BPS appli- cations is May 31st
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the current regional lab- oratory sites and enhanc- ing the services provided by them to farmers. Joe Healy said in the context of the challenges facing Irish farmers over the next number of years which include issues such as Brexit, AMR and new and emerging disease threats it was never more important to have a fully resourced Regional Veter-
inary Laboratory network to support farmers and the agri-food industry.
He said the next phase of the process is to set terms for a cost benefit analysis of the options put forward by the De- partments own working group. IFA is demanding direct involvement in es- tablishing these terms and in carrying out the analy- sis.
Thursday, 4th
May 2017
Deadline Monday at noon
West Cork And North Cork End-Of-Year Bonuses Show Strong Commitment To Farmers
IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O’Leary welcomed the decision by all four West Cork Co-ops to pro- vide, in addition to the 1c/l Carbery end-of-year bonus on 2016 supplies, a bonus from their own resources for all milk produced by suppliers last year. North Cork Co-op are also paying a
bonus of 1c/l on all 2016 supplies. “Yet again, the West Cork co-ops step up to support farmers after a very challenging year for their cash flows and incomes,” Mr O’Leary said.
“This is all the more re- markable in light of their long established track re- cord of strong milk pric-
es, based on the perfor- mance of Carbery as well as their own,” he added. “At a time when vola-
tility is a challenge with which most dairy farmers still struggle, the move by the West Cork co-ops, which will be worth be- tween 0.25c/l and 1.2c/l to their suppliers, is par- ticularly welcome,” Sean O’Leary concluded.
INHFA Calls For Increase In ANC Budget To Be Targeted Towards Hill Type Land
The Irish Natura &
Hill Farmers Associ- ation has welcomed the extension of time sought by the council of Ministers to the review of the ANC scheme. Colm O’Donnell Chair of their CAP Committee stated “how this should ensure a proper consul- tation process with all stakeholders when the new maps are produced by the middle of the year”. This review he added “was called for by the EU commission to address the unfairness in the ANC payments where it did not always reflect the level of con- straints experienced by farmers on the ground”. The INHFA was in Brussels this week where they met with senior officials in charge of Pillar 2 payments and highlighted the real need for the ANC re-
view to correctly target payments where the Bio Physical conditions place a real challenge for farmers to make a living. The INHFA present-
ed a scientific analysis to the commission that clearly demonstrated how the most disad- vantaged land was not receiving equal treat- ment under the current payment model. Indeed Josephine Loriz Hoff- man who headed the EU delegation was ad- amant “that hill farmers should have a legitimate expectation going for- ward that the payments must be proportionate for each category with- in the scheme”. She also added that “while it was at the discretion of member states to set the various categories for payment it was vital that consideration was
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given to metrics such as standard output and similar measurements so that a fair payment structure for the farming constraints could be put in place”. When you look at the
current payment catego- ries continued O’Don- nell and compare them to non ANC lands using
the CSO standard output data one can see the im- balance that exists and which increases the risk of land abandonment. O’Donnell also point- ed out “how in the pro- gram for Government Minister Creed had giv- en a commitment of a further €25 million for the ANC budget, to be
paid out in 2018. This money he concluded “needs to go into the Mountain Type Land category to help redress the imbalance in the proportionality of the current payment struc- ture and help maintain the family farm which is the backbone of the rural community”.
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