NEWS & EVENTS

The President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack has today called on the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine to suspend the Nitrates Cow Banding proposal for 2023 because it is quite clear that the system is not sufficiently prepared to implement…

The deadline for submitting calf weights under the Dairy Beef Calf Scheme is fast approaching and the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee, Mr. Des Morrison advised farmers who have applied for this scheme to ensure that the calves are weighed and the weights submitted to ICBF by 5.30pm on Tuesday…

Commenting on the publication of the Dairy Vision Report on climate measures that can be taken in the agriculture sector, the President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack said, that Irish farmers are ready to play their part in climate action but be very clear, we will not be made fools…

Speaking from the Food Vision 2030 event held in Dublin Castle today, the President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that the event perfectly illustrated what he called the Government’s fundamental misapprehension of the role and structure of Ireland’s farming and agri-food sector. Noting the ‘vision’ set out in the Government’s…

 Speaking after attending the most recent Bord Bia meeting, at which “frank and unvarnished opinions” were expressed on the issue of falling beef prices, ICMSA’s Livestock Chairperson, Des Morrison, said that his association did not accept that pressure on Sterling and the collapse of economic confidence in the UK was…

At a meeting with the Tanaiste today (Wednesday 5 Oct), ICMSA Deputy President, Denis Drennan, called for the Government’s policy on farming and agri-emissions to “reach out” to commercial family farms and cease what he called the useless and regressive ‘either/or’ approach between organic and commercial. Mr. Drennan explained that…

The President of ICMSA has said that Budget 2023 sends ‘mixed messages’ to the large numbers of farmers trying to invest in environmental improvements for their farms.  Pat McCormack said that while the accelerated capital allowances available for slurry storage was meant to give some momentum to those ready to…

Commenting, the President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, said that the Government had made a “reasonable effort” to respond across a whole range of issues and that must be acknowledged.  But questions remained around whether the Government fully grasped the size of the contribution that agriculture was making to the national…

The Deputy President of ICMSA has called for the Eircode system of location-fixing to be extended beyond homes and businesses and into a national identification system for all land holdings.  Denis Drennan said that it was becoming more and more obvious that farmers needed access to digital area-identification system that…