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News Correspondent @FarmersJournal . UCD Ag Science graduate 2021. Tiobraid Árann abú
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Joined by east Galway farmer Shane Dolphin on
@MacranaFeirme
’s march to Dublin from Athy (79km).
Shane says that it’s a “national disaster” that only 6% of farmers are under 35.
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“Do breeders get any reward for breeding a Cheltenham Festival winner other than telling their neighbours and friends that they did it,” said
@jane_mangan
who made some strong points around financial rewards for NH breeders at the
@ITBA_Official
seminar last week.
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“Years ago we lost the beet industry and by God, Minister, we are not going to lose the dairy industry,” says IFA president Tim Cullinan to Minister McConalogue
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The IFA are refusing to talk to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue who is in Tipperary this morning and are demanding a sit down with An Táiniste Micheál Martin.
President Tim Cullinan says it’s a disgrace that Agriculture was not on this morning’s FF think-in agenda
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On a 125-cow organic dairy farm in Wachstein, Germany. These Fleckvieh cows are milked by two Lely robots and are averaging 7,000kg per year.
@farmersjournal
@Bordbia
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Teresa Mannion would be fairly idle out here I tell ya 🌞🌞
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🔈 lots of commotion here in Tipperary this morning as farmers protest over the cut to the nitrates derogation from 250kg N/ha to 220kg N/ha but also over delayed payments, the design of the latest suckler scheme and as issues in both the sheep and tillage sector.
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Macra president John Keane says the message for Government is simple.
“We want a future for rural Ireland”
@farmersjournal
@MacranaFeirme
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Farmers gathering in the Horse & Jockey in Co Tipperary at the Fianna Fáil think-in to protest over the cut to the nitrates derogation
@IFAmedia
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Wexford’s Alice Doyle has been elected deputy president of the IFA describing it as a great day for “mná na feirme”
@IFAmedia
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An unprovoked assault on a farmer near Clonmel last Friday including a series of criminal behaviour has led to a meeting of the Powerstown Lisronagh community alert group, to which hundreds of people as well as local TD’s have attended.
@farmersjournal
@moyleroversclub
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John Keane’s speech to the crowds gathered at Merrion Square today.
“Today, after 79km, after over 100,000 steps, after several hundred stories, after many hundred blisters, the proudest boast is, I am a Macra member”
@MacranaFeirme
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Dairy farmers John Hannon and Noel Murphy at this morning’s protest in Tipperary
@IFAmedia
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Macra members leaving Athy in Co Kildare this evening as they embark on a 14-hour walk to Government Buildings in Dublin. Ensuring a future for rural communities is Macra’s main message.
@farmersjournal
@MacranaFeirme
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Ploughman Dean Hall from Ballinacarrow, Co Sligo competes in the u40 All Ireland Horse Plough competition. The two horses, Ned and Ted, are owned by Colman Coogan from Riverstown, Co Sligo
@farmersjournal
@NPAIE
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Roscommon
@IFAmedia
chair Jim O’Connor on why farmers are gathering today at rallies to
#SaveIrishFarming
@farmersjournal
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An Tánaiste Micheál Martin agrees meet with the IFA inside the Horse & Jockey hotel straight away
@IFAmedia
@farmersjournal
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BREAKING 🚨
The Taoiseach has agreed to write to Environment Commissioner Sinkevičius, inviting him to Ireland to meet with him, Minister Charlie McConalogue and a delegation from the sector to discuss the cut to the nitrates derogation.
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Last stop: Department of the Taoiseach!
Macra marchers out in force in Dublin this morning
@MacranaFeirme
@farmersjournal
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Hundreds of farmers who are farming along the Shannon Callows have gathered in Banagher this morning in protest over flooding which is affecting how they farm.
Some have made no silage at all this year due to flooding.
Up to 20k bales are expected to be lost.
@farmersjournal
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Ministers Humphreys, Heydon and McConalogue with sheep farmer Donie Anderson from Castlekelly, Co Dublin highlighting the damage that can be done to livestock if dogs aren’t controlled properly.
@McConalogue
@martinheydonfg
@HHumphreysFG
@farmersjournal
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IFA president Tim Cullinan has announced that the protest will go over night after getting no commitment from An Tánaiste or Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue to keep the derogation at 250kg N/ha
@IFAmedia
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Farmers out this morning in a very wet Limerick City at the Fine Gael think-in protesting over changes to the derogation and delayed payments.
IFA president Tim Cullinan says the Taoiseach has agreed to meet with the IFA some time this morning.
@IFAmedia
@farmersjournal
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Farmers still here protesting at the Horse and Jockey Hotel outside Thurles
@IFAmedia
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Francie Gorman from Co Laois celebrating his victory in the IFA presidential race in Castleknock this evening.
@IFAmedia
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COUNTY COLOURS 🥳
Ag Week Day 5- still a few km’s to go so trying to make up some ground!!
#agweek21
#roundirelandrun
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Farmers still here outside the Fianna Fáil think-in at the Horse and Jockey Hotel 24 hours later.
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Sheep farmers gathering at Ag House this afternoon to meet
@McConalogue
to present him with a letter stating clear demands for a sector “in crisis”
@IFAmedia
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The five schools that will receive calves today for the Certified Angus School Competition are: Dunshaughlin Community School, Meath, Manor House, Dublin, St Colman’s, Fermoy, Cork, Mercy Secondary School, Kilbeggan, Westmeath and Ursuline, Thurles, Co Tipperary
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The Horse and Jockey is packed to the rafters tonight for the 4th consecutive IFA presidential hustings.
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The Macra marchers have landed at their final destination.
Macra president John Keane addressed the crowd on Merrion Street saying they have “countless blisters and sore feet”.
They are now, he said, ready and waiting for Government engagement.
@farmersjournal
@MacranaFeirme
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Farmers gather in protest today at Tullow Mart Co Carlow ahead of Minister McConalogues arrival over CAP proposals.
@IFAmedia
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Thia Hennessy chairs a panel of Conor Ryan, CEO of Arrabawn, Gillian Sullivan, dairy farmer, Jim O’Toole, Bord Bia and Matt Dempsey, chair of the Ag trust at Teagasc’s EU 50 conference in Ashtown today.
@farmersjournal
@teagasc
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IFA president Tim Cullinan meets the walkers as they make a pit stop in the Irish Farm Centre before their final descent on Government Buildings.
“Keeping people who want to farm in farming is very important,” he said.
@farmersjournal
@MacranaFeirme
@IFAmedia
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Lots of questions from the floor at tonight’s
@farmersjournal
nitrates information meeting in Portlaoise.
Concerns re banding, slurry storage and financial consequences of cuts to the derogation were among the issues voiced by farmers. See next week’s paper for the full low-down
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Contract rearing event underway here on David Guiry’s Farm in Fethard Co Tipperary.
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People involved in the dairy industry from all over Europe gather in the Rochestown Park Hotel to kick off the 30th European Dairy Farmer (EDF) congress.
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The Taoiseach has said that although the budget hasn’t been decided yet, there will be an agricultural package “of some sort” for farmers.
The Taoiseach is now due to meet with the IFA to discuss issues around the derogation and delayed payments.
@farmersjournal
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The first tanker with the Tirlán branding setting back into the co op’s new collaboration hub at Abbey Quarter in Kilkenny City.
@farmersjournal
@tirlan_
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Macra coming through Stephen’s Green and just a few hundred yards from their final destination
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Tim Cullinan expresses his frustration at the CAP schemes which were announced yesterday.
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A Lely Juno in action on Hendrik Jan De Jongh’s 130-cow dairy farm in Holland
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The cows’ diet is made up of alfalfa, hay, straw and grains, all of which are grown on the farm. In winter the cows get a dairy nut to keep protein up.
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@Bordbia
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Sheep farmers need “real money” now according to
@ICSAIreland
sheep chair Seán McNamara who had called on the Government to act now and act fast
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Day 1 of
@BordBiaBloom
☀️🌸🐑
@AgriAware
are here demonstrating the art of sheep shearing to patrons.
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Banagher farmer Michael Silke expresses his anger at the inaction of the OPW, Waterways Ireland and the ESB in relation to the flooding of the Shannon Callows.
He says the “most harrowing” part is that it was to a large extent preventable.
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The scene is set and seats are laid out in Macroom tonight for the first of 16 IFA presidential debates.
Firstly, the 2 vice president candidates, Alice Doyle and Pat Murphy, will go head-to-head followed then by Francie Gorman and Martin Stapleton who’re running for president
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8yo Ballyclider Darkie at the launch of the National Ploughing Championships today in Ratheniska. Bred by Peter Ging from Ballyclider, Portlaoise
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Farmers are a step closer to being able to trade the carbon they store on their farms.
✅New carbon farming legislation received the green light in Brussels this week.
Read more here:
In this week's Irish Farmers Journal we have the latest on the new EU law which is set to pay Irish farmers for carbon captured in hedgerows, trees and soils. Plus, last chance for farmers to burn bushes before ban and expert animal health advice for autumn. On sale now.
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Francie Gorman pleads his case for farmers’ votes at IFA presidential hustings in Dungarvan tonight
#ifaelections23
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Here at Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2 for the publishing of Teagasc’s National Farm Survey results for 2021
@teagasc
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At a
@teagasc
broiler conference in Newcastle West today🐥
Aonghus Lane from St. David’s Poultry Vets said that broiler farms are 20x more likely to be infected with bird flu if they’re within 1km and 2.5km of an infected premises.
“You really have to have you wits about you”
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Dairy policy officer
@icmsa
Paul Smyth warns farmers at a meeting in the Horse & Jockey this evening to have a plan for a reduction in the derogation from 250kg to 220kg N/ha.
He warns them to “prepare for the worst”.
“This is a huge threat to our industry,” he says.
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Farmers waiting for IFA president Tim Cullinan to come back out to make an address after meeting with An Tánaiste and Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue
@farmersjournal
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Why Alice Doyle thinks farmers in Dungarvan should vote for her as deputy president of IFA.
#ifaelections23
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Glanbia Co-op to rebrand to Tirlán, a name “that will take the co op to a whole new level”, according to John Murphy.
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Organic dairy farmer John Fitzpatrick is hosting a farm walk today on his farm in Knockbaun, Spink, Co Laois.
🐄 He’s currently milking 37 cows with the aim of getting to 50.
🥛 However, he says milk price has to increase by 10c/l to make it viable.
@IFAmedia
@farmersjournal
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A fine crowd is gathering in Cashel today for the Thrive dairy calf-to-beef demonstration farm open day. Don’t forget the sun cream ☀️☀️
@farmersjournal
@FJBeef
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@farmersjournal
at the launch of the Land Mobility Service Report in Buswell’s Hotel today.
👨🏼🌾 ➡️ 👩🏼🌾 +🧑🏼🌾
-In 2022 the Land Mobility Service received more enquiries than ever
-Almost 1,000 arrangements facilitated by the service since it began
-Over 75,000ac involved
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Contract rearing is “is like a marriage” and every one “must get on”, says contract rearer David Guiry
@farmersjournal
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Large crowds have flocked to Gurteen’s energy and farm diversification show today.
Expos, demos and panel discussions will take place throughout the day focussing on energy, farm diversification and land use
@farmersjournal
@GurteenCollege
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@farmersjournal
at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland this week with an eager group of students from Ireland and the UK hoping to study vet medicine over here.
This university currently has over 150 Irish students studying veterinary
@MedicalPoland
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President Michael D Higgins greets competitors taking part in the horse ploughing classes at this year’s National Ploughing Championships
@NPAIE
@farmersjournal
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After a dead heat, Dermot Kelleher and Seán McNamara have agreed to share power for the next two years. Kelleher will remain as president for 2023 and McNamara will take over for 2024.
@ICSAIreland
@farmersjournal
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Martin Stapleton’s plea to farmers in Dungarvan tonight for their vote to elect him as president of the IFA
#ifaelections23
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Munster chair candidate Conor O’Leary kicks off proceedings in Cahir tonight.
The Cork man says that farmers are are not the cause of climate change and stressed that agriculture is the only induct that can remove carbon.
#ifaelections23
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
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Tomorrow at 7:30pm
@mstapo
and
@gormanifa
will go head-to-head for the last time. This time, however, it will be live from the Farm Centre.
If you have any questions you’d like our editor Jack Kennedy to put to the presidential candidates, leave them below.
Tune in Monday 6 November at 7.30pm for a live debate with IFA presidential candidates Francie Gorman and Martin Stapleton. If you have a question for the candidates you can email ifadebate
@farmersjournal
.ie or WhatsApp 086 836 6465. You can watch here -
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Ornua CEO John Jordan told the European Dairy Farmers congress that they hope to be a €2bn brand by 2025. They are currently Ireland’s first ever billion euro food brand.
@farmersjournal
@KerrygoldIRL
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Tim Cullinan told the Minister that there was “a hijacking of the suckler cow” in the CAP scheme announcement yesterday.
@IFAmedia
@farmersjournal
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Great to see Castle Rushen winning today. His half brother by Milan goes to
@Goffs1866
next week, in at lot 391.
Nice horse - Castle Rushen is still learning about the game but defies the penalty in easy style for Nicky Richards and Brian Hughes at
@ayrracecourse
@NGRichardsRace
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ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has pressed Minister McConalogue at tonight’s AGM to secure a rescue package for sheep farmers in the form of emergency aid in order to combat “disastrous” prices of late
@ICSAIreland
@farmersjournal
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Dairy editor Aidan Brennan outlines the mood among dairy farmers at the moment describing the double whammy of poor milk price and bad weather as a big challenge
#DairyDay2023
🐄
📍Páirc Uí Chaoimh
@farmersjournal
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Ornua’s Bernard Condon said that the company initially budgeted for a milk price in the late 30s for 2024, however now, and as the market firms up, farmers could see a milk price above 40c/l next year
#DairyDay2023
🐄
@farmersjournal
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Grange research officer Nicky Byrne says that a dairy beef system can be a really high-output system.
Between 80% and 90% of the calf’s feed requirement is already on the farm from forage.
@farmersjournal
@FJBeef
@teagasc
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“Farmers along the Shannon Callows have been treated like dirt.
“I won’t easily replace 600 bales of silage. The losses are massive. There will be a fodder crisis and let no one delude themselves in thinking otherwise,” local farmer Michael Silke says.
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The mooted dairy exit scheme is being discussed at a meeting of Tipperary ICMSA this evening.
@icmsa
president Pat McCormack said there could be a significant amount of smaller farmers interested.
🐄There are currently 955 dairy farmers with between 1 and 25 cows🐄
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IFA’s key asks ahead of a meeting with the Taoiseach this morning:
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He added that calves with a high DBI and a high beef sub index is a “sure way”of future proofing both the dairy and beef industries. Reduced age of slaughter, better kill-out and animals who produce less carbon are key factors in this.
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Breakfast briefing for exhibitors kicking off here in Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Dairy Day 🐄 🥛
@farmersjournal
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Questions from the floor tonight for deputy president candidates include:
- Rising deer numbers and surge in TB
- Future of calf exports
- Effectiveness of the Teagasc board
- Cut to the derogation
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
#ifaelections23
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Good man Seánie💙💛
#TIPVLIM
38 nóim
@TipperaryGAA
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@LimerickCLG
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Cúl ag Sean Kenneally 🤩
Excellent goal by the Moneygall man!
Iarbheo / Deferred ar
@TG4TV
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Deputy presidential candidate Pat Murphy kicks off proceedings at IFA hustings in a packed Horse & Jockey Hotel tonight.
“Farm families need people in leadership who are working through the challenges that farm families face everyday, and I am that person.”
#ifaelections23
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Jim O’Connor says there are no rivalries among farmers today outside Dr. Hyde Park in Roscommon at the
@IFAmedia
Save Irish Farming rally.
@farmersjournal
#SaveIrishFarming
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The world’s leading organic trade fair is kicking off here in Nuremberg, Germany. L-R: Peter Ottoman BIOFACH, Nicholas O’Brien Irish ambassador to Germany, Michael Murphy Bord Bia, Minister Pippa Hackett, Roland Fleck, BIOFACH, Colm Hayes DAFM.
@BioFachVivaness
@farmersjournal
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Crowds still trickling in here in Dungarvan for the 2nd night of IFA presidential elections.
Pat Murphy, deputy president candidate is up 1st followed by Alice Doyle.
2 presidential candidates Francie Gorman and Martin Stapleton will then go head-to-head.
#ifaelections23
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EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski said that the Commission is “fully dedicated to develop organics”. He added that the 25% target of EU agricultural land under organic farming by 2030 is ambitious but achievable.
@farmersjournal
@BioFachVivaness
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Both Gorman and Stapleton stand up to make their closing remarks.
Gorman said that he would set the bar high and if he doesn’t jump it, it won’t be for the want of trying.
Stapleton says if he becomes president, he will listen to every farmer so that their thoughts are heard
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David Costello, a dairy farmer from Kilcolgan, Co Galway tells the
@farmersjournal
why he came to the Roscommon rally today
@farmersjournal
@IFAmedia
#SaveIrishFarming
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@ICSAIreland
sheep protest taking place outside the Dáil today highlighting the “deepening crisis” in the sheep sector. The association is calling for €30/ewe in the Sheep Improvement Scheme and €5/ewe for the correct presentation of wool.
@farmersjournal
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Presidential debate about to get underway now.
Francie Gorman (Laois) won the toss but is letting Martin Stapleton (Limerick) go first.
@IFAmedia
@farmersjournal
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