by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
21 APRIL 2020 ICSA president Edmond Phelan has said that emerging reports of an EU €80 million package for agriculture plus aids to private storage (APS) for steak cuts is just a drop in the ocean to what is needed. “While we await further details, the €80 million...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
21 APRIL 2020 ICSA president Edmond Phelan says that ICSA will campaign against any referendum to interfere with property rights and devalue land. “Suggestions that government formation plans include a referendum to facilitate an artificial cap on the value of land...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
20 APRIL 2020 ICSA Animal Health and Welfare chair Hugh Farrell has said the time is now right to bring compulsory BVD testing to an end. “Farmers have complied assiduously with the BVD Eradication Programme and their efforts are reflected in the fact that we have...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
17 APRIL 2020 ICSA Tillage chair Gavin Carberry has said the current flour shortage is a direct result of years of under investment in the tillage industry and has laid bare our over reliance on the UK for supplies. “It took a pandemic to expose just how...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
16 APRIL 2020 ICSA president Edmond Phelan has said that the EU’s prevarication on the impact of Covid-19 on farming is utterly unacceptable at a time when European farmers continue to feed the EU population despite severe price pressures. “The European Commissioner...
by admin | Apr 15, 2020 | Latest News, Press Releases
15 APRIL 2020 ICSA president Edmond Phelan has said a convening of the Beef Taskforce must be facilitated as a matter of urgency to assess and address on-going difficulties in the beef sector as a result of Covid-19. “It is incomprehensible that the Beef Taskforce...