by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has called for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath, the Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport Eamon Ryan and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue...
by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA general secretary Eddie Punch has called on Minister McConalogue to review the disastrous decision to replace the Burren Programme with the generic ACRES Co-operation scheme. “The Minister is risking undermining the incredible progress made in regenerating the...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham said that it was looking increasingly likely that the Food Vision Beef report will be rejected in its entirety following Friday’s meeting of the group. “We are trying to get as good a package as possible for beef and suckler farmers who...
by admin | Nov 11, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
-EVEN POLISH BEEF PRICES ARE AHEAD ICSA Beef chair Edmund Graham has called for an explanation as to why Irish beef prices have fallen so far behind the prices in countries we export to. “It now appears that our quality assurance scheme (SBLAS) is a complete failure...
by admin | Nov 11, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has slammed the EU response to the fertiliser cost crisis as “woefully inadequate” and he added that there were echoes of the disastrous thinking that caused chaos in Sri Lanka. “The EU response is that we need to move away from chemical...
by admin | Nov 9, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Sheep chair Sean McNamara has said the increased cost of finishing lambs this winter will push sheep farmers out of business unless processors commit to increasing prices substantially. “With the current price of meal, feeding lambs this winter will be impossible...
