IFA subs

Deepsouthwest

Chatting to a member of my dg yesterday and the cost of IFA membership came up. I told him I'm paying between €7/800 every yr in direct debit out of my milk account with the coop to both the IFA and the ICMSA, something which was set up long before my time.
My friend said he stopped that yrs ago, and pays around €100 a yr membership to the IFA and that's it. I didn't ask him about what he pays to the ICMSA.
Now I'm wondering am I the only fool paying out this type of money every yr? Anyone else paying these subs or is everyone on the one off payment membership fee?

blue5000

All stopped here, no longer a member.

Deepsouthwest

blue5000 wrote: »

All stopped here, no longer a member.

I have no prob being a member, farmers still need a voice, whether I agree with a lot of their actions or not. But I feel this is paying through the nose.

mahoney_j

Stopped money for ifa from milk cheque and from anything that goes to factory.am an ifa member though and avail of whatever benefits I can from it .some hypocrite I am .......

Cavanjack

Stopped factories deducting money from the cheque. Pay membership fee for whatever little Benefit there is and that's it.

Brown Podzol

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Chatting to a member of my dg yesterday and the cost of IFA membership came up. I told him I'm paying between €7/800 every yr in direct debit out of my milk account with the coop to both the IFA and the ICMSA, something which was set up long before my time.
My friend said he stopped that yrs ago, and pays around €100 a yr membership to the IFA and that's it. I didn't ask him about what he pays to the ICMSA.
Now I'm wondering am I the only fool paying out this type of money every yr? Anyone else paying these subs or is everyone on the one off payment membership fee?

Contributing c.€300 to IFA/Macra fund and €126 IFA membership fee. Not a member of ICMSA. I must enquire about thee Macra/IFA fund, not entirely sure what it does.

Deepsouthwest

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Contributing c.€300 to IFA/Macra fund and €126 IFA membership fee. Not a member of ICMSA. I must enquire about thee Macra/IFA fund, not entirely sure what it does.

Have u the €126 on direct debit? When is it taken out? Sounds like u and me paying over the odds.

boggerman1

Stopped all deductions from milk cheque yrs ago.don't pay membership to ifa either.had a visit recently to the yard from a jobsworth trying to resign me again.took a good few mins for him to get the message that I have no intention of ever giving the ifa a cent again

orm0nd

mahoney_j wrote: »

Stopped money for ifa from milk cheque and from anything that goes to factory.am an ifa member though and avail of whatever benefits I can from it .some hypocrite I am .......

ditto.

flew the flag for the ifa long enough & now just pay the membership & grab any freebies

fbd discount & sprayer course discount more than covered the memb. fee this year.

Base price

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Contributing c.€300 to IFA/Macra fund and €126 IFA membership fee. Not a member of ICMSA. I must enquire about thee Macra/IFA fund, not entirely sure what it does.

From a report - Feb 2013
http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/farmers-pay-up-44m-in-meat-dairy-and-mart-levies-in-2012-29049596.html

Brown Podzol

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Have u the €126 on direct debit? When is it taken out? Sounds like u and me paying over the odds.

Looks like we are. Membership fee taken from August milk account. The IFA/Macra fund is taken each month on a per litre basis. .041 c. per lt. I think one or the other would be enough.

Miname

Stopped paying . I know there are plenty of right lads ( mainly volunteers I'd presume) within the Ifa but I reckon there's far too much hidden agendas within this organisation, mainly being to get a cheque for pure lip service. If the members on boards alone were to put all their subs together that are currently being paid, I'd say they could employ a couple of people and get a bit more value for money than what's being achieved by the Ifa at the moment. In theory it's a great cause but it just doesn't work.

royaler83

orm0nd wrote: »

ditto.

flew the flag for the ifa long enough & now just pay the membership & grab any freebies

fbd discount & sprayer course discount more than covered the memb. fee this year.

Do ya get a discount on the sprayer course if you're a member, can't find that anywhere

rangler1

royaler83 wrote: »

Do ya get a discount on the sprayer course if you're a member, can't find that anywhere

If there's enough people interested the local IFA offices can get some funding from Skillnet, but there's a lot more involved than the ordinary course.
FRS do them for IFA I think so you can phone them and ask......I didn't bother looking for it when I heard there was more bureaucracy, I think there was €40 off,
Maybe I was just unlucky that our trainer didn't want the bother of more paperwork

orm0nd

rangler1 wrote: »

If there's enough people interested the local IFA offices can get some funding from Skillnet, but there's a lot more involved than the ordinary course.
FRS do them for IFA I think so you can phone them and ask......I didn't bother looking for it when I heard there was more bureaucracy, I think there was €40 off,
Maybe I was just unlucky that our trainer didn't want the bother of more paperwork

the local branch chairman is organizing it , haven't a clue of the nuts and bolts just put down my name

mf240

I only support local charities.

CINCLANTFLT

How do people feel about IFA subs now?

Greengrass1

It would be a shame to see macra loose out with everyone stopping there subs to ifa.
The only sub macra gets is off the milk. It's 20% of the ifa levi. It equates to 350 k in the yr.
They could get hit hard with this

frazzledhome

Have levy stopped. Was over €2k being collected. Never considered stopping it till the latest revelations.

Pay membership of €160 for 2 people and will continue to do so.

I'd expect that one of the recommendations of the reform crew will be the scrapping of all levies. IFA cannot continue with a situation where processors are their collector generals.

coolshannagh28

No levy deducted from my last mart cheque although I didn't ask that it be stopped ,this could spell danger for the IFA if all marts take this approach

rangler1

frazzledhome wrote: »

Have levy stopped. Was over €2k being collected. Never considered stopping it till the latest revelations.

Pay membership of €160 for 2 people and will continue to do so.

I'd expect that one of the recommendations of the reform crew will be the scrapping of all levies. IFA cannot continue with a situation where processors are their collector generals.

Jasus Wouldn't mind the cheque that levy comes off.
You're point also highlights the inequity of the membership fee, is that 160 each, I think I'm paying 120 and OH pays 65 for another while.
I know, as a neighbour said. it'd cost you more to join a hockey club

whelan2

Think it's 160 for family membership. Although spoke to a lad today paying 200 for membership. I pay 160 . Paid in October

orm0nd

rangler1 wrote: »

Jasus Wouldn't mind the cheque that levy comes off.

just b'cos frazz was getting a cheque to justify 2K deduction, didn't mean it was coming off his profit

ppl were unaware of paying these levies whilst struggling to break even

@ frazz just using your example to justify a point

Base price

orm0nd wrote: »

just b'cos frazz was getting a cheque to justify 2K deduction, didn't mean it was coming off his profit

ppl were unaware of paying these levies whilst struggling to break even

@ frazz just using your example to justify a point

Also when it comes to livestock some animals could have several levies deducted over the lifetime due to been traded through marts before ending up in the factory.