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 | 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 | Jan 16, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has welcomed the statement by Minister McConalogue that there will be no suckler cull scheme. “It is now imperative that we look at ways of funding active suckler, beef, and sheep farmers to keep them viable and to help them improve...
by Neassa | Dec 21, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said that the 2023 Climate Action Plan, announced today, is long on aspiration and short on specific funding strategies. “The Government is now going to have to put money in place to deliver on its aspirations. Farmers will be...
by admin | Oct 24, 2022 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher said that the association would not accept any proposal from the Food Vision process that makes suckler farming the fall-guy for the climate targets. “There has been a lot of speculation that the suckler herd will be sacrificed to...