NEWS & EVENTS

The Chairperson of ICMSA Farm Business Committee, Pat O’Brien, has urged the Department of Agriculture to complete its review of TAMS reference costs and proceed “immediately” with the increases that all know must follow. “This delay is ‘knocking-on’ and effectively jamming up the system as interested farmers await the publication…

Speaking after leading a delegation of ICMSA national officers to meet Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine, Martin Heydon, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan said that the meeting had gone into detail on the issues facing Irish farming and the wider agri sector in the critical upcoming period. Describing…

ICMSA Farm Business Committee Chairperson, Pat O’Brien, is urging financial institutions to reduce interest rates for farmers as crippling rates are disincentivising investment and threatening generational renewal.  The Farm Business Chairperson said that Irish farmers are often being charged up to 3% more for finance by Irish pillar banks than…

Commenting on today’s launch by the EU Commission of its ‘Vision on Agriculture and Food’, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, welcomed the publication of the strategy and said it appeared to signal a ‘step change’ in EU farm policy. But the ICMSA President said that “obviously” the success or…

The President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, has said that one of the new conditions announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in connection with this year’s BISS amounts to a clear case of ‘double jeopardy’.   Mr. Drennan said that the ‘Social Conditionality’ element introduced effectively means…

As the last areas of the State still left without full power and communications are re-connected, the leader of a major farm organisation has proposed that the basic maintenance of hedgerows and trees overhanging power and communications cabling should be ‘contracted out’ to trained local farmers.  The President of ICMSA, Denis…

As TAMS 3 tranche 6 applications opened last week, the Chairperson of ICMSA Farm Business Committee appealed to the Department to include diesel generators for funding given the ongoing issues arising from the latest storm. The Chairperson, Pat O’Brien, went on to call on the Revenue Commissioners to allow farmers…

ICMSA Dairy Committee Chairperson, Noel Murphy, has called on Animal Health Ireland to seek answers from the Minister of Agriculture, Food & the Marine regarding funding for the “seemingly never-ending” BVD Eradication Programme. Mr. Murphy said that farmers were also entitled to know when compulsory tissue tag testing is coming…

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock chairperson, Michael O’Connell, has reminded all SCEP participants that they have until 12 February to amend their 2025 or Year 3 reference number if required.  The reference number is based on the participant’s average suckler cow number from 2016 to 2021 and can be reduced…

Responding to the announcement by the Minister of Agriculture Food and Marine, Martin Heydon, that there will now be a 60% grant with a specific €90,000 investment ceiling available for slurry storage available under TAMS 3 from today, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, said that the announcement was a…