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info@eastcorkjournal.ie Agriculture
Cork Senator, Tim Lombard, has welcomed the opening of the 2018 National Reserve
and
Young Farmers Scheme, and is encouraging all qualifying candidates to apply for additional funding through the on- line system. Senator Lombard said: “The National Reserve
in 2018 will be aimed specifically at educated young farmers and new entrants to farming, and it is expected that
the
fund will be roughly €3.5 million. “The Young Farm- Scheme,
ers just allocated
nationally, provides an additional payment
over €24 million to
successful applicants per activated entitlement. “Young farmers can
use these funding streams to top up their single farm payments, to real- ly invest in their enter- prise and future business. Both the 2018 National Reserve and the Young Farmers Scheme
will help support the contin-
IFA Meets Minister Creed On Clean Sheep Policy
The Cork-based sheep
farmer, and Chairman of the IFA National Sheep Committee, Sean Denne- hy met with Agriculture Minister Michael Creed this week and highlighted the “over the top” imple- mentation of the Clean Sheep policy at
level. Sean
Dennehy
factory said,
“We made it very clear to the Minister that some Department officials have adopted an overzealous ap- proach to the Clean Sheep Policy. This has dragged the policy into disrepute and has led to growing dis-
ruption of normal selling and processing activity. “We asked the Minis-
ter to get the Department to pull back and adopt a more practical and sensible approach on the issue.” Sean Dennehy
added
that the situation has im- proved somewhat since the meeting with the Minister. Sean Dennehy also led
an IFA Sheep Committee delegation in what he de- scribed as a robust meeting on the Clean Sheep Policy with senior vets in the De- partment of Agriculture in Backweston. IFA made it very clear
to the Department that the current overzealous imple- mentation of the Clean Sheep Policy by the De- partment
is totally unacceptable and must change immediately. Sean Dennehy said the
changes the Department has made, without consul- tation, to the implemen- tation of the Clean Sheep Policy over the last
of the policy and creating major anger and frustra- tion at farm level. The IFA sheep farmer
of Agriculture
leader said the Depart- ment must adopt a more practical and realistic ap- proach, taking account of the difficult weather and ground conditions of re- cent weeks. The Department agreed
two
weeks have led to major problems for both factories and farmers. He said this unaccept-
able approach by the De- partment is damaging the smooth implementation
to review the unworkable aspects of the current poli- cy and to revert to the IFA by the end of this week. Sean Dennehy said IFA
made it clear that sending sheep home and full shear- ing are not part of any pol-
icy and are totally unac- ceptable. The Department agreed to review sending sheep home and also made it clear full shearing was not necessary. The IFA sheep farmer
leader said sheep farmers would continue to endeav- our to present sheep as clean as possible. Sean Dennehy said the
imposition of charges on farmers by the factories for clipping is also unaccept- able. He said farmers have been caught in the firing line and these measures are imposing both costs and la- bour on the sector.
IFA Welcomes Project Ireland 2040 Plan
IFA President Joe Healy
has welcomed the publi- cation of Project Ireland 2040, and the focus the plan places on the devel- opment and regeneration of rural Ireland. Joe Healy said the allo-
cation of €1bn for a new Rural Regeneration and Development
Fund in-
dicates a very welcome commitment to supporting and strengthening rural Ireland. The IFA President said
he was encouraged to see many of the recommenda-
tions IFA submitted to the Draft plan taken into con- sideration,
the need for rural housing, renewable
opment, the regeneration of rural towns and villag- es, and the urgent need to deliver on the National Broadband Strategy. Joe Healy said the de-
tail of the plan will need to be examined carefully and IFA National Council will discuss it in detail at its next meeting before pro- viding feedback to Gov- ernment.
in particular energy devel-
Thursday, 22nd
February 2018
info@eastcorkjournal.ie Deadline Monday at noon
2018 National Reserve And Young Farmers Scheme Applications Open
uing agriculture regener- ation in Ireland. “Applications under
the 2018 National Re- serve and Young Farm- ers scheme must be sub- mitted online at http://
agfood.ie/, and the full criteria of both schemes can be found at www.
agriculture.gov.ie.”
IFA & Coillte Meet On Farm Partnerships
The IFA National
Farm Forestry Commit- tee met with represent- atives from Coillte this week to discuss issues that were affecting farm- ers with farm partner- ship agreements. IFA National Farm Forestry Chairman Pat
Collins said it was a constructive meeting to address farmers’ con- cerns and to ensure bet- ter communication with their farmer partners. “There was genuine
engagement from Coil- lte and a commitment to work with IFA to resolve
the issues.” It was agreed that IFA and Coillte would meet again shortly to contin- ue discussions to agree principles under which these matters will be ad- dressed and to provide clarity to the involved.
farmers
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