by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Press Releases
25 OCTOBER 2016 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has said that bureaucracy around the new sheep scheme must be kept to an absolute minimum to attract maximum uptake. Mr Brooks made his comments following an ICSA meeting with Department of Agriculture officials in...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Press Releases
25 OCTOBER 2016 Following revelations that Ulster Bank has sold a share of its loan book to vulture funds, ICSA Rural Development chairman Seamus Sherlock has again called on the banking sector in Ireland to take a long term view in its dealings with their valued...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Press Releases
25 OCTOBER 2016 ICSA suckler Dermot Kelleher chairman has welcomed the decision by the Department of Agriculture to extend the BDGP carbon navigator deadline for one month. “Both farmers and advisors have been under enormous pressure as the deadline loomed so this...
by admin | Oct 18, 2016 | Press Releases
18 OCTOBER 2016 ICSA president Patrick Kent has challenged EU Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan today in Brussels to fight very hard to defend the beef sector in trade negotiations with the USA and South America. “We have to defend EU standards of food production....
by admin | Oct 18, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
THAT’S FARMING – 17 OCTOBER 2016 The ICSA believes that real efforts to prevent flooding are ‘being paralysed by committees and too many objectors’. Flooding in areas along the Shannon is a worrying threat to rural people, and as winter draws...
