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Sunday, 28 December 2008 |
Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith and IFA President Padraig Walshe met in Dublin just before Christmas to discuss funding for the sheep sector. Mr. Walshe urged the Minister to introduce a Sheep Maintenance Payment to secure the future of Ireland’s €400m sheep sector. The IFA President said that funding is now available from unspent Single Payment funds, National Reserves and modulation funds for a sheep scheme.
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Saturday, 27 December 2008 |
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Brendan Smith, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has published a scheme document detailing the terms and conditions that apply to the payment of compensation in respect of pigmeat recalled from the market after the recent incident of feeding stuff contamination. |
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 |
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The staff of FarmingPages.com would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you enjoy this short story which was emailed to us. The story was sent in by Denis Cronin, formerly of Agway Milling Ltd. Mollie was bought as a two year old filly at the Tallow Horse Fair in 1937 by my grandfather, Joe Forrest, who ran a mixed farm at Hollyhill, Blarney Road, Cork. She spent her early working life assisting “the stallion” with a multitude of farm tasks such as tilling the fields, following the reaper and binder, mowing the hay and transporting the excess corn not required for winter feeding to the merchants’ stores. |
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