by admin | Sep 28, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
28 SEPTEMBER 2018 ICSA Animal Health & Welfare chair Hugh Farrell has called for the BVD Eradication Programme to be wound up as quickly as possible and said that efforts need to be intensified in order to achieve that. “We are now in the sixth year of what was...
by admin | Sep 27, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
26 SEPTEMBER 2018 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has urged sheep farmers to consider ordering conventional sheep tags by the end of this month in advance of the introduction of mandatory EID tagging. “Only EID tags will be sold from 1 October, however, conventional...
by admin | Sep 25, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
25 SEPTEMBER 2018 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has once again hit out at processors for using excess supply to push down prices. “Processors are continuing to make huge profits off the backs of sheep farmers; they have no problem forward selling lamb at much...
by admin | Sep 25, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
24 SEPTEMBER 2018 ICSA Animal Health & Welfare chairman Hugh Farrell has called on the Department to allow valuers to do their job when it comes to the live valuation system for TB reactors. “When it comes to breeding stock, or animals with show potential, there...
by admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
11 SEPTEMBER 2018 At the ICSA 25th anniversary celebrations, held in Kilkenny on Friday (7 Sep), the association announced a new initiative to support farm families deeply affected by stress arising from the fodder crisis. The ICSA Fodder Crisis Family Support Fund...