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Title: Defining a genuine farmer – who should fit the bill
The Irish Farmers Journal sought the views of a number of farm organisations as to how they would define a genuine farmer and prevent funds going to armchair farmers.
Kerrygold is the second-largest selling butter brand in the US.
The announcement on Friday evening that the EU and US have agreed to suspend tariffs in relation to the Boeing-Airbus aircraft dispute has a welcome spin-off for Irish dairy farmers.
This is because when the US was cleared by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory tariffs on the EU in 2019, one of the sectors it chose was EU dairy exports.
It applied a 25% tariff, which immediately made Irish butter and cheese exports to the US 25% more expensive than they were previously.
In spite of this, Irish dairy exports to the US, particularly butter and cheese, continued to increase even after the tariffs were imposed in late 2019.
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Access to water is a big issue for Australian livestock production, with prolonged droughts a regular feature.
Further evidence of inherent hostility within the EU commission towards EU beef production can be found in the disproportionate allocation of promotional funds to organically produced produce.
This is highlighted by Farm Europe, a Brussels-based think tank on the performance of the EU rural economy.
EU promotion funding for organic
The think tank challenges the fact that half the EU promotional funding is allocated to Farm to Fork projects, with a particular focus on organic produce, despite the fact it represents just 10% of EU farm output value. Farm Europe also highlight that this special focus on organic is discriminatory against mainstream EU production, which is the majority output from EU farms. Its final grievance with the promotion policy is that it jumps the gun in earmarking funding support for the Farm