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I see that IFA presidential candidate Tim Cullinan has called on the IFA livestock committee to “change its policy of defending the 30-months age limit”.
Ahead of IFA elections later this year, Cullinan said that the committee’s sticking with this “indefensible requirement” is alienating some farmers and fuelling the protests at factory gates.
He said that “ambiguity on the 30-month age limit is no longer an option for IFA and its abolition would go some way to addressing one of the root causes of the factory protests in the first place”.
The next few weeks should prove interesting.
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