Charlie McConalogue

To influence change in policies for Farm & Forestry Contractors in Agricultural Policy

Looked for a support scheme to help farmers with escalating input costs in Fuel, Fertiliser and Feed

To ensure that the sectoral target for agriculture was achievable and kept as close as possible to 22%

To get more funds for the TB programme

A scheme to pay farmers who sow catch crops

A payment to suckler farmers in addition to the CAP scheme for sucklers

To get extra funding for the sheep sector in addition to the CAP payment

To get funding for a beef scheme that would pay beef finishers who volunteer to slaughter cattle at a younger age

To influence change in policies for Farm & Forestry Contractors in Agricultural Policy

IFA seeks the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to state that the focus of attention of this Office will be on the actors at the top of the Food Chain; the main retailers of food in Ireland today. These are the actors that hold the buying power and have distorted the…

Improvements in the administration of BEAM Scheme.::Clarity on the the formula used by the Department to determine the reduction required.::Concerns about framing of some of the Terms and Conditions and the Terms and Conditions in general.::Improvements in communications to…

- Availability of key inputs such as fertiliser, fuel and feed. There is an urgent need to provide an inventory of fertiliser and fuel supplies followed by a full appraisal of available and projected feed supplies for the remainder of the year and next winter.::All land must be…

That the Live Valuation Scheme be amended to provide for animals to be valued independently and fairly at the price they would make on the open market.::That Income Supplement and Depopulation Grant payments must reflect the full income loss caused by the removal of animals from…

Clarification received from Minister for Agriculture::With reference to the concerns of the IFA regarding the transparency of food labelling, that the Department of Health, along with Food Safety Authority of Ireland, is the competent authority for Food labelling in Ireland. It…

IFA require all farmers to be accepted into the Agri - Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) and that those applying in 2023 must be paid in the same year::To highlight the critical importance of payments to farmers' income.::To highlight that the overall maximum payment in…