Agri Politics
A Sinn Féin TD has claimed that European Commissioner for Agriculture has disrespected the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food.
Pig/Poultry
A Sinn Féin TD has called on poultry farmers to immediately house birds to protect against the risk of avian influenza (bird flu) cases.
Over 450 farmers in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency are awaiting ACRES scheme payments, according to Sinn Féin TD, Natasha Newsome Drennan.
A TD who runs a suckler farm with her husband, has told the Dáil that her hopes of her sons staying in farming are "dwindling".
Beef
The EU-Mercosur trade deal poses poses "the gravest threat to Irish farmers in a generation", according to a Sinn Féin TD for Carlow-Kilkenny.
