Agri-Business
The European Commission has allocated €77 million in emergency support to farmers in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal.
Rural Life
The Rural Independent Group of TDs has called on the government to acknowledge the rising costs of...
Fianna Fail Agriculture Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue has called on the Government to match the EU Agri Solidarity Package.
Dairy
The Commission is looking at how it could incentivise Article 222 in the next EU dairy package, the Commissioner for Agriculture has said.
Pig/Poultry
The Department is considering allocating a small portion of EU funding to the Irish Pig Society to assist small scale pig producers.
Young farmers in the dairy sector are to receive a €1,000 top-up aid payment today from last September's EU aid package, the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed has said.
Irish pig farmers are to receive their share of the EU aid package announced in September in the coming week, the Minister for Agriculture has said.
Irish pig farmers are still awaiting their share of the EU dairy and pigmeat aid package monies that were announced several months ago.
Minister Coveney has been called on to take urgent action to ensure the pig aid payments are processed without further delay by Matt Carthy, Sinn Fein MEP.
