by Neassa | Aug 20, 2024 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA Suckler chair Jimmy Cosgrave has said the suckler sector needs urgent investment if the decline in suckler numbers is to be halted. “In the last three years, we have seen a roughly 15% drop in suckler calf births, and all indications are that this trend...
by Neassa | Jul 18, 2024 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Sean McNamara has called on Minister McConalogue to stop the decimation of vital farming sectors and preserve the fabric of rural Ireland by delivering for low-income beef, sheep, and suckler farmers in Budget 2025. “Farmers in these sectors are...
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...