by Kevin | Jun 13, 2013 | Press Releases
13th June, 2013President of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association, Gabriel Gilmartin, has assured Mayo commonage farmers that ICSA will continue to work hard to ensure a practical, flexible approach is taken to the reform of commonage management.ICSA...
by Kevin | Jun 13, 2013 | Press Releases
13th June, 2013The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association has reiterated the urgent need to review the issue of ‘calendar farming’ in its submission on Ireland’s Nitrates Action Programme. Submissions on the issue were sought by the Departments of Agriculture and...
by Kevin | Jun 5, 2013 | Press Releases
5th June, 2013President of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association, Gabriel Gilmartin, has welcomed the appointment of Tom Hayes TD as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and has called for his deployment to deal with the...
by Kevin | Jun 5, 2013 | Press Releases
5th June, 2013The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association has welcomed the appointment of Tipperary South TD Tom Hayes as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. ICSA president Gabriel Gilmartin said, “I would like to wish Minister...
by Kevin | May 30, 2013 | Press Releases
30th May, 2013The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association has described the current low prices being paid by factories for sheep as “totally unjustified and unacceptable.”ICSA national sheep chair, Paul Brady, sharply criticised the price cuts in recent days. “The...