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Tipperary farming: ICSA package for National Ploughing Championships

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Tipperary farming: ICSA package for National Ploughing Championships

ICSA has unveiled a packed schedule for the National Ploughing Championships 2017 taking place in Tullamore on September 19 to 21. The highlights of the ICSA stand include panel discussions on Women in Agriculture and the launch of three new ICSA ...

14 Sept 2017 at 20:00

Tipperary farming: research shows smaller dairy operators work longer hours

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Tipperary farming: research shows smaller dairy operators work longer hours

Dairy farmers with less than 150 cows can work up to three hours longer per day than those with up to 550 cows, according to new reasearch The research, conducted by Teagasc PhD candidate Justine Deming, MSc, was unveiled at an open day hosted ...

13 Sept 2017 at 19:00

Tipperary farming: Glanbia increases August milk price to 35cpl and adds in bonus

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Tipperary farming: Glanbia increases August milk price to 35cpl and adds in bonus

Glanbia Ireland will pay its milk suppliers 35 cent per litre (cpl) including VAT for August manufacturing milk supplies. Glanbia Ireland has also announced that it will pay its milk suppliers a 1cpl bonus on all milk supplied in January to ...

12 Sept 2017 at 19:00

Tipperary farming: ICMSA announces John Feely Farm Scholarship deadline

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Tipperary farming: ICMSA announces John Feely Farm Scholarship deadline

Farm students have been invited to apply for this year’s John Feely Scholarships with completed application forms to be submitted by Friday 6 October. The chairperson of the John Feely Foundation, John Comer, announced that the body – ...

11 Sept 2017 at 19:00

Tipperary farming:jobs and live demonstrations at National Ploughing Championships

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Tipperary farming:jobs and live demonstrations at National Ploughing Championships

The National Ploughing Championships 2017 will take place from Tuesday, September 19, to Thursday, September 21, in Screggan, Tullamore, County Offaly. FRS have lots to offer visitors from jobs to live mobile app and chainsaw ...

10 Sept 2017 at 20:00

Concern over High Court 'blitz' on loans by private equity companies

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Concern over High Court 'blitz' on loans by private equity companies

ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has said he is very concerned at the huge increase of High Court actions brought by private equity firms in the last year. “Figures reveal that there has been a tenfold ...

09 Sept 2017 at 14:00

Tipperary farming: IFA says GDT auction prices justify August milk price increase

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Tipperary farming: IFA says GDT auction prices justify August milk price increase

IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O’Leary said this week's GDT auction had again showed the continuing strength of butterfat prices, with butter up 3.8 per cent and AMF 3.6 per cent. Taken together with ...

08 Sept 2017 at 19:00

Tipperary farming: ICMSA concern over continuing price gap as dairy markets strengthen

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Tipperary farming: ICMSA concern over continuing price gap as dairy markets strengthen

The chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee has again drawn attention to what he called “the hugely concerning gap” that has opened up between Irish dairy prices and those of our mainland EU counterparts. Gerald ...

07 Sept 2017 at 20:00

Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada raises concerns for Tipperary farming from Limerick plant

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Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada raises concerns for Tipperary farming from Limerick plant

Sinn Féin MEP for Ireland South Liadh Ní Riada has stated that the livelihoods of farmers in County Tipperary must not be put at risk by a change of use at the Irish Cement plant in Limerick. She made the ...

05 Sept 2017 at 18:00

Tipperary farming: continued bad weather threatens tillage incomes

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Tipperary farming: continued bad weather threatens tillage incomes

IFA National Grain Committee chairman, Liam Dunne has said that difficult weather conditions at this critical juncture of the harvest will compound the income crisis many tillage farmers are facing due ...

03 Sept 2017 at 20:00

Tipperary farm leader says better balance is needed for generational shift on farms

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Tipperary farm leader says better balance is needed for generational shift on farms

Specific details around the supports offered to young farmers need to change and an increased focus needs to be put on simplification and the freeing-up of land, according to the deputy president of ...

03 Sept 2017 at 16:00

Tipperary farming: farm groups say farmers are still treated 'shabbily' on SACs

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Tipperary farming: farm groups say farmers are still treated 'shabbily' on SACs

Farmers are continuing to be treated “shabbily” when it comes to Special Areas of Conservation, according to the ICMSA. Its Farm and Rural Affairs Committee chair, said that there were still ...

02 Sept 2017 at 18:00

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