by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
CLARE CHAMPION – 19 DECEMBER 2016 The ICSA has appealed to all rural dwellers to look out for one another over the Christmas period. The organisation’s rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock said, “We all lead busy lives and none more so than farmers but...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 14 DECEMBER 2016 Teagasc needs to go back to the drawing board and look at the advice it offers to low-intensity farmers, ICSA President Patrick Kent has said. Speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Kent said...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 15 DECEMBER 2016 It is time for meat factories to stop using scare tactics in an effort to drive down the price of lamb, according to the ICSA’s Sheep Chairman John Brooks. “This time last year farmers were achieving 510c/kg with prices rising, now we...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
THAT’S FARMING – 28 NOVEMBER 2016 The leaked proposals undermine previous bio-fuel plans ‘without any scientific basis’: The ICSA President Patrick Kent is speaking out after it was revealed that new EU Commission plans will slash the target for the crop...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
FARMING INDEPENDENT – 27 NOVEMBER 2016 The statistical evidence is stark – farmers have a higher death risk than any other occupation in Ireland, with the main causes being heart disease, cancers and farm accident. This was the stark message from senior...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
FarmIreland – 26 NOVEMBER 2016 1 Rib-eye steak. During my visit to this year’s Ploughing Championships I happened to run-into Paddy Kent, an old friend from my ICSA days. After catching up on farming issues Paddy took me aside and said that he had a book...