by Neassa | Jun 3, 2026 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Rural Development chair Edmond Phelan has said that if previous year’s stocking figures are good enough for one Department calculation, they should be good enough for slurry import limits too. “We have seen the Department accept the use of prior-year...
by Neassa | Mar 13, 2026 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Rural Development chair Edmond Phelan has called on the Department of Agriculture to amend the rules around the importation of organic nutrients so that allowable imports are calculated using the previous year’s stocking rate rather than the current year’s...
by Neassa | Oct 13, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said an additional extension to the slurry spreading deadline is warranted as weather conditions have given little opportunity to responsibly spread slurry over the last few weeks. “Frequent and heavy rainfall in all parts of the...
by Neassa | Sep 29, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has called for a further extension to the slurry spreading deadline as the weather has provided no opportunity at all to responsibly spread slurry in the past few weeks. “On 21 September the Minister announced a brief extension to 8...
by Kevin | Oct 15, 2013 | Press Releases
15th October, 2013The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association is once more calling upon the authorities to scrap the calendar farming restrictions for slurry spreading, which ICSA president Gabriel Gilmartin describes as “unworkable and unrealistic, given the...
