by Kevin | Sep 12, 2012 | Press Releases
12th September, 2012The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association president, Gabriel Gilmartin, says he is “hugely disappointed” that the deadline for the spreading of slurry has not been abolished altogether, rather than simply extended. It...
by Kevin | Sep 10, 2012 | Press Releases
10th September, 2012Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association beef chairman, Edmond Phelan, said that beef factories are going to have to confront the reality that winter finishers will need better reassurances on beef price for the New Year if they are to fill...
by Kevin | Sep 5, 2012 | Press Releases
5th September, 2012The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association has organised the delivery of several loads of straw and silage bales from the midlands and east of the country to a number of farmers in west Cork, who have been particularly badly hit by the...
by Kevin | Sep 4, 2012 | Press Releases
4th September, 2012President of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association, Gabriel Gilmartin, has described the plethora of strict deadlines and closing dates imposed on vital farming activities as “nonsense”, and says the concept of farming by calendar dates...
by Kevin | Aug 28, 2012 | Uncategorised
27th August, 2012The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association is calling on the Government to suspend the carbon tax to alleviate pressure on businesses, particularly farm business, as Irish farming attempts to deal with one of the toughest years in recent times....