NEWS & EVENTS

The President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, has said that farmers will be ‘moving to high alert’ following reports that ESB Networks are seeking even more powers in relation to land use and access as their response to the mass outages caused by trees falling on power lines during Storm Eowyn.…

As the dairy sector prepares for the third-round of 2025 milk price announcement, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, has called for a reversal of cuts made to the February milk price. Mr. Murphy said the fact that only two processors cut – and those were the first two…

  The ICMSA has again called on the four AI stations who dominate the Irish AI (cattle artificial insemination) market and who have collectively decided to apply IP (Intellectual Property) to the offspring of farmers’ cows from specific bulls to immediately suspend their decision and enter proper discussions with farmer…

Speaking after the TB Forum meeting held today (26 March), the Deputy President of ICMSA, Eamon Carroll, has said that the association “had no intention” of asking farmers to accept very significant portions of the proposed TB measures presented at today’s meeting. Mr. Carroll said the fact that would ‘jump…

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…