NEWS & EVENTS

Commenting on the CAP agreement reached by EU Agriculture Ministers, ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, said that farmers will be hugely disappointed given that the net effect of the Farm Council decision is that farmers are going to be asked “yet again” to do more with less, while precisely nothing has…

The President of ICMSA has welcomed the announcement as part of Budget 2021 of the introduction of a new calf weighing measure for farmers rearing dairy beef calves and Pat McCormack described it as an important first step to improving the integration between the dairy and beef sectors. Mr. McCormack…

  ICMSA said that the taxation measures pertaining to farming were generally positive and the Association’s President, Mr. Pat McCormack, said that the extension of both the Consanguinity and Stamp Duty Restructuring reliefs was positive and a recognition of the role that these measures played in restructuring and ensuring that…

 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…