by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Press Releases
28 OCTOBER 2016 ICSA president Patrick Kent has expressed huge disappointment at the apparent bullying of the Wallonia region in Belgium over their opposition to the CETA trade deal between Canada and the EU with the apparent outcome being that Belgium is now...
by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Press Releases
28 OCTOBER 2016 -WE NEED TO FOCUS ON RENEWABLES WHICH CAN TRANSFORM OUTLOOK FOR AGRICULTURE & RURAL COMMUNITIES ICSA president Patrick Kent has welcomed the passing of the anti-fracking bill through its first stage in the Dáil saying that fracking offers no...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
IRISH EXAMINER – 24 OCTOBER 2016 by Eddie Punch, ICSA general secretary As the aftershock from Brexit continues, a question which is increasingly occupying my mind is ‘who is to pay the price?’ Eddie Punch, ICSA general secretary This question is particularly...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
FARMERS JOURNAL – 20 OCTOBER 2016 The ICSA beef chair, Edmond Phelan, is encouraging winter finishers to have a contract with their factory that locks in a price. The ICSA beef chair, Edmond Phelan, is encouraging winter finishers to have a contract with their...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
FARMERS JOURNAL – 18 OCTOBER 2016 Brexit has created uncertainty for a market which buys 250,000t of Irish beef. Irish farm organisations are on a lobbying tour of Brussels with trade deals highs on the agenda. On Tuesday, both the IFA and the ICSA met European...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Press Releases
25 OCTOBER 2016 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has said that bureaucracy around the new sheep scheme must be kept to an absolute minimum to attract maximum uptake. Mr Brooks made his comments following an ICSA meeting with Department of Agriculture officials in...