by Kevin | May 22, 2015 | Press Releases
May 22nd 2015Senior ICSA representatives today met with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials to lobby for greater flexibility in the new Beef Data and Genomics Programme and to insist on the removal of potentially severe penalties for aspects of...
by Kevin | May 22, 2015 | UPCOMING EVENTS
Event NoticeDonegal ICSA will host a meeting open to all farmers on Tuesday next, May 26th, at 8.30pm in Friel’s, Raphoe and featuring updates and discussion on the Department’s controversial new Beef Data and Genomics Programme and on the GLAS scheme.The...
by Kevin | May 21, 2015 | UPCOMING EVENTS
Event Notice Waterford ICSA will host a public meeting open to all farmers on Tuesday, May 26th, at 8pm at the Viking Hotel, Waterford, with the new Beef Data and Genomics Scheme as the main item on the agenda. For more information, contact Wateford ICSA chairman John...
by Kevin | May 21, 2015 | UPCOMING EVENTS
Event NoticeBDGP Meeting at Sixmilebridge Mart The new beef data and genomics scheme (BDGP) and the controversial issue of land eligibility and overclaim penalties will be centre-stage at a meeting in Sixmilebridge mart this coming Monday night (25th May) at...
by Kevin | May 21, 2015 | Press Releases
21st May 2015ICSA president Patrick Kent has slammed the 6-year contract requirement for the new beef data and genomics programme, saying “It is completely and absolutely unacceptable that farmers would be treated this way. All the evidence points to the...
