NEWS & EVENTS

As Belgium assumes the EU Presidency till June 23 of this year, ICMSA has welcomed that state’s announcement that food security will take ‘centre stage’ in their direction of food and agricultural policy. Noting that the work program announced by Belgium stressed a commitment to reducing the EU’s dependency on…

Commenting on the formal launch of An Rialálaí Agraibhia, the food regulator, the President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack said that the Regulator must send out a strong signal from ‘Day One’ that it is intent on exposing ‘margin-grabbing’ and delivering supply chain transparency if it is to win the…

Commenting on the decision of the European Parliament and Council to exclude cattle farms from new EU rules governing emissions from industrial installations, ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, welcomed the measure and said that the original suggested equivalence between family farms and industrial plant had always been more about anti-farming ideology…

The President of ICMSA has described the decision to rescind the VAT rebate to farmers buying bulk milk tanks, calf feeders and other items as petty and yet more evidence – “if it was even needed” – that a deliberately anti-dairy policy is being pushed throughout all agencies of Government.…

The Deputy President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, has called for a complete review and relaunch of TAMS 3 after describing the present scheme as “shambolic from start to finish”. Mr. Drennan, who also Chairs ICMSA’s Farm & Rural Affairs Committee, noted that previous versions of TAMS had always provided some…

The current bounce in milk markets across the globe is a welcome and ongoing development according to ICMSA Dairy Chairperson, Noel Murphy, but he warned that Irish milk suppliers are losing patience as the bounce fails to materialise in their farm gate prices. Mr. Murphy noted that 2023 had seen…

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that today’s meeting with EU Environmental Commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevicius, on the Nitrates issue was useful and had clarified several questions. Chief amongst those clarifications was the Commissioner’s concession that if water quality stabilised then Ireland could keep its Derogation. Mr. McCormack said that…

Following the presentation of Budget 2024 today, the President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that the initial response of farmers would be one of confusion and disappointment at what he termed a ‘complete non-event’ to very serious problems in the sector that were not just there to be solved –…

Referring and welcoming the decision by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine to allow farmers to receive payment under the Liming Programme where the receipt has been submitted by 31 October 2023, and allowing the lime to be spread up to 31 March 2024, the Deputy President of ICMSA…