by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
FARMIRELAND.IE – 6 JANUARY 2017 1 ICSA proposes that this incentive should be available on an EU-wide basis at a rate of €200 per cow per annum for up to five years on a voluntary basis. The Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) has said that beef farmers...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 5 JANUARY 2017 Farmers need to assess their borrowing capacity before applying to the new low-cost loans scheme, according to the ICSA’s Rural Development Chairman Seamus Sherlock. Sherlock has called on farmers to be cautious if availing of the new...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | ICSA in the Media
The ICSA has called on the government to reopen the Irish embassy in Iran JOURNAL.IE – 1 JANUARY 2017 View of Tehran from the Azadi Tower – Iran Image: Shutterstock/Leonid Andronov FARMERS HAVE CALLED on the government to reopen the Irish embassy in Iran,...
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...