NEWS & EVENTS

Responding to the Glanbia announcement, ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, said that the association would look carefully at the proposal before coming to any decision on whether to recommend it or not. Mr. McCormack noted Glanbia PLC’s enthusiastic and positive vision of a post purchase future where the Co-op became ‘one…

   The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that farmers will constructively engage with the climate action plan, but he warned that “farmers will not be made fools of” and the Government needs to show due respect to the farming and rural communities. “Farmers are perfectly entitled to feel that…

While output prices for most farm commodities did increase during 2021, the President of ICMSA has said that the benefits of these long-overdue prices increase are being completely wiped out due to an across-the-board surge in farm input costs. Pat McCormack said that “by far” the most concerning rise in…

   The proposed allocation of €25m over five years for a Dairy Calf Scheme announced under the CAP Strategic Plan is hugely disappointing and represents half-hearted support for a better economics and lower emissions solution, according to Des Morrison, Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee. Noting that all the initial calls…

The President of ICMSA said that it was alarming to hear spokespersons continuing to use and stress the word ‘feasible’ where that referred exclusively to environmental progress. Pat McCormack said that what was at stake was nothing less than the economic feasibility of Ireland outside the cities and largest towns…

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee has said that the association is confident that that the next round of price announcements scheduled for the end of the first week of November will see a rise in the prices paid to Irish milk suppliers. Gerald Quain said that the international demand…

The President of ICMSA has said that the reported cuts in agri-related emissions will be “a huge challenge and one that can only be contemplated – much less achieved – with massive support and commitment from every level of Government in Ireland”.   Mr. Pat McCormack said that his Association was…

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that farmers would look in vain to Budget 2022 for any signal that the Government understood the scale of the challenge that it is putting before the State’s farm families.   Mr. McCormack said that “yet again” there was a gross mismatch between the…

The President of the state’s specialist dairy farmer organisation has said that self-employed people and people working in the private sector are looking on with “bemusement” as state employees who sat at home from Day One of the pandemic now loudly proclaim their own ‘sacrifices’ and jostle for their place…