Call for Minister to review age limit for female farmers
The Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group (WASG) is calling on Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, to review the set age limit for female farmers. At present the age limit associated with female farmers accessing the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) is 66. According to the group, they had previously lobbied the minister when an earlier iteration of Ireland’s Strategic Plan proposed a qualifying age for female…