NEWS & EVENTS

Commenting on today’s launch by the EU Commission of its ‘Vision on Agriculture and Food’, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, welcomed the publication of the strategy and said it appeared to signal a ‘step change’ in EU farm policy. But the ICMSA President said that “obviously” the success or…

The President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, has said that one of the new conditions announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in connection with this year’s BISS amounts to a clear case of ‘double jeopardy’.   Mr. Drennan said that the ‘Social Conditionality’ element introduced effectively means…

As the last areas of the State still left without full power and communications are re-connected, the leader of a major farm organisation has proposed that the basic maintenance of hedgerows and trees overhanging power and communications cabling should be ‘contracted out’ to trained local farmers.  The President of ICMSA, Denis…

As TAMS 3 tranche 6 applications opened last week, the Chairperson of ICMSA Farm Business Committee appealed to the Department to include diesel generators for funding given the ongoing issues arising from the latest storm. The Chairperson, Pat O’Brien, went on to call on the Revenue Commissioners to allow farmers…

ICMSA Dairy Committee Chairperson, Noel Murphy, has called on Animal Health Ireland to seek answers from the Minister of Agriculture, Food & the Marine regarding funding for the “seemingly never-ending” BVD Eradication Programme. Mr. Murphy said that farmers were also entitled to know when compulsory tissue tag testing is coming…

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock chairperson, Michael O’Connell, has reminded all SCEP participants that they have until 12 February to amend their 2025 or Year 3 reference number if required.  The reference number is based on the participant’s average suckler cow number from 2016 to 2021 and can be reduced…

Responding to the announcement by the Minister of Agriculture Food and Marine, Martin Heydon, that there will now be a 60% grant with a specific €90,000 investment ceiling available for slurry storage available under TAMS 3 from today, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, said that the announcement was a…

The Deputy President of ICMSA, Eamon Carroll, has asked that farm inspections be suspended for at least a week as large swathes of the country recover and repair the massive amount of physical damage caused by Storm Eowyn.   Mr. Carroll said that the last thing that farmers left reeling from…

Speaking following a meeting with the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Mr. Christophe Hansen, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan said that he welcomed the positive comments made by the Commissioner since his appointment and specifically on the need to work collaboratively in a manner that focussed on farm…

Reacting to the draft Programme for Government published earlier today, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, said that sections dealing with agriculture contained much that was both interesting and encouraging and he said that aside from the ambitions set out, there was an admirable change in tone evident that saw…