by admin | Jul 15, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Rural Development chair Tim Farrell has challenged Minister McConalogue to demonstrate how the new ACRES scheme will bring any worthwhile benefits to active, commercial farmers. “In particular, I am openly saying that there will be very few farmers in the general...
by admin | Jul 12, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
COMMON SENSE MUST PREVAIL IN CLIMATE TARGET DECISION ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said common sense must prevail when it comes to emission reduction targets for the agriculture sector. “A target of 22% is the absolute maximum the agriculture sector can bear;...
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said he does not accept the logic around forcing farmers to become members of Bord Bia’s Sustainable Beef and Lamb Assurance Scheme (SBLAS) in order to receive CAP payments. “If farmers do not derive any benefit from participation in...
by admin | Jul 4, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has called on the meat factories to come clean on how much beef is being imported from Poland and why this is happening. “ICSA has received multiple reports about large volumes of beef arriving from Poland. It is arriving both in carcass...
by admin | Jul 1, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Sheep chair Sean McNamara has welcomed the publication this morning of the long-awaited Wool Feasibility Study. “ICSA fought hard to make this happen on behalf of the sheep farmers we represent. We established our own Wool Steering Group in 2020 which has now led...
by admin | Jun 30, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Sheep chair Sean McNamara has described the delay in publishing the Wool Feasibility Study as unconscionable as sheep farmers endure another disastrous wool clipping season. “Wool has been valued as practically worthless for three consecutive years now and sheep...
