NEWS & EVENTS

Demonisation of Agriculture Needs to Stop. –  ICMSA. Irish farmers have a critical role to play in Ireland’s climate strategy and we need to move away from demonising the sector and start to put in place real plans to allow the sector to continue to do what it is good…

Speaking in relation to AIB’s decision to make 70 of its 170 branches cashless including the removal of ATM machines, the President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack said, that there will be huge disappointment in the towns concerned and their associated rural areas and it will put further pressure on…

Speaking in relation to the High Court case approving a PIA for a farmer being pursued by a financial institution, Mr. Shane O’Loughlin, Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm Business Committee, welcomed the decision of the High Court and said that the PIA mechanism provided a basis for farmers who find themselves…

Speaking after a meeting with senior officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food & Marine on the new agri-environment scheme ACRES, the Deputy President and Chairperson of ICMSA Farm & Rural Affairs Committee, Mr. Denis Drennan said, that there remains serious questions over the effectiveness of the new agri-environment scheme…

Commenting on the Agricultural Price Indices for May 2022 published by the CSO today, the President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack said, that the level of input cost inflation experienced by farmers since May 2021 is unprecedented in any sector with a 41.6% increase in input costs and the fertiliser…

Noting an interest rate of 3.75% on loans up to €250,000, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm Business Committee, Shane O’Loughlin, said that farmers looking for funding for their farm business should consider the Covid-19 Loan Scheme (‘CLS’) announced yesterday by Ministers Varadkar, Donohoe and McConalogue.  Loans of between €25,000 and…

Speaking in advance of milk price announcements for June, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, said, that while dairy markets continue in a very strong position the returns being achieved at milk processor level are still not being fully reflected in the price being paid to farmers. “While…

Speaking following a meeting with the Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine, the President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack said that that family dairy farmers have been ‘sold out’ by the Minister. Mr. McCormack said that the Minister’s plan to reduce cow numbers on family dairy farms under a measure agreed…

The President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack has described the decision of the Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine to exclude milk suppliers from the fodder support scheme as scandalous and yet again, highlights the bias that has developed within the current Government and policymakers against family farms. We now…

Commenting on the announcement that the British Government intends bringing forward legislation that will unilaterally overrule aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that we are entering a period when cool heads and calm exposition will be needed. Mr. McCormack said that while we…