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The Irish Natura and Hill Farmer Association (INHFA) has come of age, I see. Last week at the association’s AGM, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed extended not one, not two, but three invitations to the association.
He invited INHFA to sit on the Farmers Charter of Rights committee, the direct payments committee and the Department’s CAP Rural Development Programme monitoring committee.
With the lines beginning to be drawn on the CAP battlefield, farmers will have a new voice at the table, whatever the outcome.
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