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The Chairperson of the ICMSA Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, has bluntly said that the dairy year is not shaping up well: “From high inputs to poor weather conditions, 2023 has been very hard for dairy farmers from a financial and farm management perspective. Add in the changes to the nitrate’s…
Read MoreThe President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that in common with every other viewer, he and his members found the issues and footage addressed in the programme to be disturbing and disappointing. Mr. McCormack said that the clear laws and regulations set out around the question of animal welfare must…
Read MoreThe Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee, Des Morrison, has expressed his concerns regarding the “deeply suspicious trajectory” of Irish beef prices over the last eight weeks. Mr. Morrison said that Irish Beef price have fallen steadily since 13 May while the almost exactly similar market in the UK has seen…
Read MoreCommenting on the decision of the Government to designate almost the entire country for a drop from 250kgs of N to 220kgs of N in 2024, the President of ICMSA said that the decision marks the end of the current Government’s cynical pretence about managed reduction of dairy volumes and…
Read MoreAddressing the reports of an imminent supermarket price war with one corporate retailer apparently set to announce reductions of 10% on 700 products, ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, said that both farmers and all those who profess themselves to be alarmed by the current climate crisis are entitled to wonder whether…
Read MoreSpeaking in advance of today’s meeting between farm organisations and the Taoiseach, ICMSA Deputy President, Denis Drennan, said that urgent issues and challenges were “queued out the door, down the road and around the corner”. Mr. Drennan said that even veteran observers and commentators would struggle to remember a time…
Read MoreThe President of ICMSA has said that Minister’s McConalogue confidence that any farm rewetting envisaged under the Nature Restoration Act will be voluntary looks to be in “direct contradiction” of the terms of the Act as published. Pat McCormack was commenting on assurances given by Minister McConalogue to journalists…
Read MoreThe President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has criticised what he described as a fundamental dishonesty that underpinned the current debate around food inflation and the reality that consumers are being ‘gouged’ on price by the corporate retailers. Stating that from a producer perspective the multiple retailers have consistently abused their…
Read MoreThe Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee, Des Morrison, has again expressed his concerns regarding Irish beef price. Mr Morrison said that comparison showed that “yet again” Irish prices were adrift of essentially similar markets, and he called on MII to furnish any kind of rational explanation for the differentials. “As…
Read MoreThe direct attack on individual farm families under the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) needs to be urgently addressed, according to ICMSA Business Committee Chairperson, Mr. Shane O’Loughlin or else, farm families will be forced to sell land that has been in their family for generations and in many cases,…
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