Farm bodies rally against rising costs
Organising blockades as a means of protest is a matter that causes considerable aggravation and it is a device that particularly irritates large chunks of the population. People with significant appointments, trying to get work done, get children to school and such urgent matters find them intolerable.
Joe Public may well remark that farmers should have their annual supplies of fertiliser in the shed long ago and, that Trump’s war is not going to last forever. Everyone is being effected.
Farmers know well that their actions are causing irritation, but they are engaging in these protests because they are sharply conscious that huge increases in fuel and fertiliser costs make their enterprises very vulnerable. They point to ‘the flight from the land’, often due the sheer weight of regulation that is imposed on them and the fact that many of them operate on land that was farmed by their forefathers.
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IFA say retrospective TB proposal is ‘unfair’
The proposal made by the Department of Agriculture to restrict the sale of cows in herds that have been ‘locked up’ in advance of the introduction of the Bovine TB Action Plan on a retrospective basis is very unfair on farmers who are suffering from an outbreak of the disease, the Chairman of the Animal Health Committee at the IFA said.
David Hall confirmed that “the IFA is firmly opposed to the retrospective implementation of measures within the TB Action Plan. In particular, the proposed retrospective restriction on the sale of cows from exposed cohorts and the identification at point of sale of females over 18 months”.
He was also critical of what the Association regards as ‘a lack of meaningful stakeholder engagement’ on the part of the department with regard to the introduction of the BTB Action Plan.
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