Charlie McConalogue

bring change to support Agricultural Contractors

FCI Submission to Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine and the National Fodder & Food Security Committee

To extend working season for hedge management

To get a meeting on policy issues for Agricultural Contractors

To get support for the Agricultural Contractor sector in Ireland

To put a programme of structures in place to support Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland

1. Showcase the use of public funds to the Minister as part of the National Breeding Services programme::2. Impress upon the Minister & Representatives the need for additional funding for integrity measures & anti-doping programmes as part of the National Breeding Services to…

To highlight the serious issues facing farmers.::To engage with government Ministers and TD's to discuss how some of these issues could be resolved in next months budget.::To run a poster campaign on all routes to the Championships to highlight urgent issues including; The delay…

To press for payment within agreed time frames

To get extensions to deadlines for slurry spreading in light of inclement weather

To work towards improved water quality but also to ensure that measures are fair, balanced, do not impose unnecessary red tape and do not affect less intensive farmers more than is necessary

To encourage a more understanding approach from DAFM to risk of mental health issues in farmers and to give greater consideration to this in terms of DAFM communications with farmers and in relation to scheme terms and inspections

To seek amendments to the SCEP terms and conditions, the new ICBF indexes or both. to convey farmer anger over the process, and the sense that breeding policy is being directed in a manner unfair to suckler farmers, particularly having regard to the SCEP scheme pressures

To ensure that schemes to utilise funding announced in the budget for sheep and sucklers are used in the most farmer friendly way, to ensure that funding is not contingent on SBLAS membership, to ensure that T&Cs of the schemes do not result in significant leakage of funding to…

That the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine comes forward with a comprehensive package of supports for the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) programme, which includes the full on-farm testing cost for the disease.::To highlight that the costs of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea…