by admin | Jan 16, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 13 JANUARY 2017 The Department of Agriculture has been called on by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) to adopt a more common sense approach to slurry spreading dates. The call comes as the slurry spreading ban ended on January 12 this week...
by admin | Jan 16, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 13 JANUARY 2016 A coalition of Irish farmers, environmentalists, trade unionists and small business organisations have called on MEPs to oppose the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Over 80 Irish civil society groups, including...
by admin | Jan 16, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
FARMIRELAND.IE – 13 JANUARY 2017 1 From this week farmers across most of the country are allowed to spread slurry once again. Photo: Roger Jones The Department of Agriculture is being called on to adopt a more ‘common sense’ approach to slurry...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
FARMERS WEEKLY (UK) – 10 JANUARY 2017 © Tim Scrivener Irish beef farmers have called on the EU to pay farmers to cut suckler cow numbers in order to reduce beef supply. Farm leaders have been warning for a number of months that low prices are leaving beef...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
IRISH EXAMINER – 10 JANUARY 2017 Suckler farmers need a €200 per suckler cow incentive to voluntarily reduce numbers in light of oversupply of beef in Europe, says ICSA suckler chairman Dermot Kelleher. He says that 200,000 more cattle will go for slaughter in...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 9 JANUARY 2017 Prompt payment for schemes such as GLAS is critical for farmers operating on tight margins, ICSA Rural Development Chairman, Seamus Sherlock, has said. “ICSA has received many calls on the issue from farmers who have complied with...
