by Neassa | Nov 9, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said ICBF must do more to allay farmers’ fears around the introduction of significant changes to Ireland’s beef breeding indexes. “Major changes to both Terminal and Replacement beef indexes are scheduled to be introduced on 21...
by Neassa | Oct 6, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has welcomed the common-sense decision to allow more time for farmers in the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) to become fully accredited to the Bord Bia SBLAS (Quality Assurance Scheme). Mr Kelleher said that ICSA had proposed...
by Neassa | Sep 5, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Animal Health and Welfare chair Hugh Farrell has said that “confusion reigns supreme in relation to a strategy for IBR.” Mr Farrell was commenting on the new suckler scheme known as the Beef Welfare Scheme which includes a measure to take IBR (Infectious...
by Neassa | Aug 3, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
-COUPLED PAYMENT ONLY WAY TO DELIVER REAL SUPPORT TO SUCKLER SECTOR ICSA Suckler chair Jimmy Cosgrave has said the new suckler scheme (National Beef Welfare Scheme) demonstrates that ICSA was 100% correct when it campaigned for a coupled suckler payment in the CAP...
by admin | Nov 12, 2021 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Suckler chair Ger O’Brien has slammed the decision to make membership of Bord Bia’s Sustainable Beef and Lamb Assurance Scheme (SBLAS) mandatory for those wishing to participate in the proposed new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Scheme. “ICSA is very clear that...
