NEWS & EVENTS

Speaking following the latest meeting on the Farmers Charter negotiations, the Deputy President of ICMSA, Mr. Denis Drennan, said that his Association wanted the vexed issue of payment dates to be ‘front and centre’ in discussions and the Department cannot continue to avoid the seriousness of the issue.  Mr. Drennan…

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has said that Minister McConalogue cannot be allowed to “hide behind a committee” to delay the necessity of going back to the Commission and getting the 220kg requirement dropped. Mr. McCormack said there was a clear onus on the Minister to accept the political…

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has called for a total revamp of the Dairy Beef Scheme and an acceptance on the part of the Minister that the scheme has to be “refunded, re-energised and redesigned” if it is to play the potentially decisive part it can play in developing…

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…

The 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…

The 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…

Commenting 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…

Addressing 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…

Speaking 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…

   The 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…