by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Press Releases
21 MARCH 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has called for a total ban on Brazilian meat imports to the EU and for trade talks with the Mercosur bloc to be suspended indefinitely. Mr Kent made his comments at the European Parliament in Brussels today at a Farm Europe...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Press Releases
20 MARCH 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has called on the EU to immediately ban all Brazilian beef imports in the light of the emerging scandal on shoddy practices in Brazilian meat plants and bribery of Brazilian officials. “The EU has been warned time and time...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Press Releases
16 MARCH 2017 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has reiterated the association’s stance that an immediate interim payment should be made to all farmers with Hen Harrier designation. Mr Sherlock made his comments following the revelation that the...
by admin | Mar 15, 2017 | Press Releases
14 MARCH 2017 ICSA beef chairman Edmond Phelan has said the proposed takeover of Dunbia by Dawn Meats would be a major blow to competition within the sector. “Beef farmers struggle to get a fair price as it is and most farmers would associate the difficulties in...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Press Releases
14 MARCH 2017 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has expressed concern that the Department of Agriculture is sleepwalking into another IT fiasco which will result in more delayed payments. “We are still awaiting IT systems for Knowledge Transfer advisers...
by admin | Mar 10, 2017 | Press Releases
10 MARCH 2017 An ICSA survey, undertaken in conjunction with Waterford Institute of Technology, indicates that two thirds of Irish farming families have been affected by crime relating to their farming enterprise. Speaking as results emerged from ICSA’s National...
