NEWS & EVENTS

 Speaking in advance of next weeks’ Budget, the President of ICMSA said that while farmers realised the constraints that Budget 2021 would be delivered within, it was still obvious and urgent to introduce specific measures required to enable the farming and agri-food sectors to deal with the ongoing challenges presented…

Speaking after a meeting of the Farmers Charter Monitoring Committee, the Deputy President of ICMSA said that the association had stressed the need for the maximum number of recipients to receive their BPS/Greening payment due on the 16 October next promptly due to that payment’s traditional importance in the financial…

The President of ICMSA has welcomed the publication of the first ever National Healthy Eating Guideline for One to Four Year Olds and the specific reference to milk as one of the nine ‘main messages’ the guideline sets out.   Mr. Pat McCormack said that yet again a highly qualified and…

ICMSA has announced the appointment of Méabh Dore as Policy Officer and Executive Secretary to both the association’s Livestock Committee and the Farm and Rural Affairs committee. Méabh grew up on the family suckler farm in Shanagolden, County Limerick, and graduated as a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from UCD in…

With only approximately 700 claims for payments submitted under the Calf Investment Scheme out of a total of 2,400 applications, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm and Rural Affairs Committee has reminded farmers that the closing date for the submission of payments claims is Wednesday, 30th September and to ensure that…

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee said that he was not sure that everyone appreciated the kind of difference that existed between the top and bottom paying Co-ops and how that translated into what Gerald Quain said was “serious money”. “The ‘Rule of Thumb’ that we’d work off is that…

    Against the background of Covid-19. Brexit and a potential Mercusor agreement, the Irish beef sector has an opportunity to take a positive step forward by submitting a PGI application for Irish Grass Fed Beef under which 70% of Irish beef – including dairy beef – would qualify. But…

After his first meeting with Minister McConalogue this afternoon, the President of ICMSA said that he was encouraged by the energy that the new Minister seemed intent on bringing to his position and the command of the questions he showed. Pat McCormack said that while it was certain that he…

With the payment date for the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) only two weeks away and the BPS payment to be made on the 16th October, the Deputy President of ICMSA has called on the Department to issue all outstanding queries so that farmers can respond on time and ensure…

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has welcomed the appointment of Charlie McConalogue to the position of Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and said it would be difficult to overstate the number and importance of the challenges facing the incoming Minister. “I’m afraid I don’t think there can…