by admin | Apr 12, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has called on Minister McConalogue to allow farmers to repay BEAM money over a much longer timeframe to improve their cashflow situation in the short term. “We are in the middle of an unprecedented cost inflation crisis with fertiliser,...
by admin | Feb 22, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Beef chair Edmund Graham has said the final figures for the BEAM scheme show what a spectacular mess was made of devising a scheme that was meant to help farmers in deep difficulty. “It is a stunning indictment of the Department that a scheme that was meant to...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has said the conditionality attached to BEAM monies was so flawed that the Department of Agriculture must revisit every aspect of the scheme. “BEAM stands for Beef Exceptional Aid Measure; as the full title indicates it was exceptional...