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...
by admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Press Releases
7 MARCH 2017 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has said that the spirit of the Department of Agriculture’s new Clean Livestock Policy (CLP) for sheep is being ignored by processors in favour of cashing in at the expense of producers. “When creating the policy the...
by admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Press Releases
7 MARCH 2017 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has called for an upfront and immediate payment to be made to farmers on designated Hen Harrier lands while the logistics are being put in place for future locally led schemes. “Farmers have waited long...