A 'goodwill payment' to farmers for road projects has been more than doubled to €6,500 under a new National Roads Agreement between the Irish Farmers Association and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)
The Department of Agriculture has knowingly allowed farmers to be used as pawns by knackeries and renderers in their now frequent disputes, IFA Animal Health Chairman TJ Maher has said.
If farmers don’t have a co-ordinated representative voice, it’s difficult for EU policy makers to know what farmers want, according to Mairead McGuinness.