by admin | Mar 24, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chairman Edmund Graham has said there is no way that farmers can plan for winter finishing now, given the ferocious rise in costs and the uncertainty around markets. “There will be very little cattle fattened next winter given current realities. Factories...
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 | Nov 2, 2021 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA is calling on Minister McConalogue to immediately announce an allocation of €50m to fund ICSA’s Beef Carbon Efficiency Scheme, set out as part of the association’s CAP Strategic Plan. ICSA president Dermot Kelleher said, “The minister is now talking about...
by admin | Oct 15, 2021 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA beef chairman Edmund Graham has called on Minister McConalogue not to forget that beef finishers need to be recognised with a specific payment in the CAP reform. “With all the focus on climate change and the targets that will be set for the farming sector, it is...
by Kevin | Aug 30, 2013 | Press Releases
30th August, 2013The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association says beef farmers will not countenance coupled support payments for the dairy industry, which has an average per-hectare income double that of the beef finishing industry. ICSA beef committee chair,...
