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ICMSA call for Base Milk Price of 53cpl for May

2022-06-02

A base milk price of 53 cents per litre is fully justified for May milk, according to the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee. Noel Murphy said that Co-op boards should be considering this as the minimum when they meet next week to set May milk price. Mr. Murphy said that…

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ICMSA welcome 5cpl increase in Glanbia Base Milk Price and predict same again for next month

2022-04-13

Commenting on the Glanbia Ireland base price increase of five cents per litre that will give suppliers a price for March milk of 47.08cpl, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, said that the Association expected a similar price increase for milk supplied this month. “We want to welcome…

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TAMS Costings Increases “hopelessly short of what was required” say ICMSA

2022-04-13

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm & Rural Affairs Committee said that “yet another” opportunity to modernise TAMS and make it fit-for-purpose had been spurned as the Department announced lower than expected increases in the reference costs across a range from 5 to 15%. Pointing out that CMSA has repeatedly highlighted…

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Reported Environmental Permit System will regulate family farms “out of existence”

2022-04-07

The President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has warned that the Environmental Permit System being proposed by the Commission for farms with 150 livestock units or more will move Ireland’s family farm system decisively towards destruction and he appealed for some degree of logic to be brought to the debate “before…

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ICMSA say Base Price Of 50cpl For March Milk “Needed and Justified”

2022-04-06

Speaking in advance of the imminent March milk price announcements by the Co-ops, ICMSA Dairy Committee Chairperson, Noel Murphy, has called on all Co-ops and milk purchasers to bring base milk price up to 50cpl for March supplies. Mr. Murphy said that the price is fully justified by market returns…

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ICMSA welcome Glanbia movement of Fixed Milk Price Schemes.

2022-03-30

ICMSA President Pat McCormack had welcomed the announcement from Glanbia to provide options to those farmers that are facing considerable challenges from having large percentages of the milk contracted under Fixed Milk Price Schemes. There is growing and unprecedented pressure on dairy farmers who locked into these contracts in the…

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Cap on Dairy Production – ICMSA reject it and say we must be able to rely on statements made by Tanaiste “mere days ago”

2022-03-08

The President of ICMSA has said that “there are no circumstances” in which ICMSA will agree to a cap on the volumes of milk produced in Ireland.   Mr. Pat McCormack said that the whole multi-billion Euro sector was relying on the recent comments of both Professor Boyle and Tanaiste Varadkar…

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ICMSA demand to know who’s setting the National Climate Strategy: Government or environmental quangos?

2022-03-02

Reacting to the announcement that Friends of the Irish Environment has launched a High Court challenge to the Government’s Food Vision 2030 Strategy, ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, said that it was now imperative that what he called “the duly elected Government” proceeded with the plan. Mr. McCormack said that the…

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ICMSA welcome “retro eligibility” of last Autumn’s calves for Dairy Beef Calf Scheme

2022-03-01

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee had welcomed the announcement by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that calves born after 1 July 2021 will be eligible for inclusion in the 2022 Dairy Beef Calf Scheme.  The announcement was made following a meeting and on foot of repeated…

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Forestry Plan 2022 dismissed – “Problem is not lack of ambition; the problem is administrative chaos”

2022-02-15

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm & Rural Affairs Committee has said that “unfortunately” he cannot see how the Forestry Licencing Plan 2022 – details of which were published last week – will deal with a forestry sector that he described as “completely seized-up”. Denis Drennan said the stress that the…

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