by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
25 JULY 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has said the future viability of the family farm structure has moved a step closer with the announcement of key changes to the Fair Deal Scheme. Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People Jim Daly...
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
20 JULY 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock, in reaction to the publication of the Greenways strategy, said that consultation and respecting the wishes of landowners is key. “CPOs have no place in greenway development because a tourism strategy that...
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
20 JULY 2018 ICSA beef chairman Edmund Graham has hit out at meat factories, describing their current appetite for price cutting as “opportunistic, misguided and short sighted in the extreme.” On the back of processors pulling prices for the last number of weeks, Mr...
by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
17 JULY 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has called on Irish Water not to use the current dry weather as an excuse to force a pipeline across Irish farmland. “Water restrictions are in place because of leaks in the current infrastructure. There is...
by admin | Jul 17, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
17 JULY 2018 ICSA tillage chairman Gavin Carberry has called for the immediate reconvening of the Tillage Forum to address the looming crisis facing the sector. “Vast quantities of spring cereals have been written off, with spring barley crops in the North East...
by admin | Jul 17, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
11 JULY 2018 ICSA president Patrick Kent has welcomed the move by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Denis Naughten to prohibit or restrict the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Mr Naughten, in a...