NEWS & EVENTS

Commenting on the announcement of a €1.5m support scheme for calf rearing designed to cover a 40% grant for computerised calf feeders, milk carts and calf pen dividers amongst other items, ICMSA President Pat McCormack welcomed the scheme but maintained that the scheme should be ‘demand-led’ with a fast-track approval…

Cross-Compliance fines related to farmers exceeding the 170kgs of N/hectare nitrates limit or the 250kgs of N/hectare limit in the case of derogation farms are quite common and to reduce farmers’ exposure to such penalties in 2019, it is essential that farmers inform the Department by 31 December 2017 of…

Commenting on the decision of the HPRA to introduce a requirement that from January 2022 all antiparasitic veterinary medicine products will require a veterinary prescription, ICMSA’s Deputy President, Lorcan McCabe, described the decision as a retrograde step that will add yet another layer of bureauracy and cost for farmers treating…

  Acknowledging the 1cpl price rise increase from Kerry and Glanbia Ireland for November milk supplies, ICMSA Dairy Chairperson, Ger Quain, described it as very welcome and a starting point for the further rises required to “make up the ground” and bring Irish milk price into some kind of parity…

The GHG inventories issued by EPA highlight a rise in emissions for the agriculture but they also show obvious changes that are occurring at farm level.   “The devil – and the progress made- is in the detail and it’s necessary to ‘drill-down’ to see the areas where progress is…

The President of ICMSA, Mr. Pat McCormack, has said that the Brexit Agreement reached between the EU and UK has to be welcomed and the challenge now must to get this deal approved by the House of Commons and allow a new atmosphere of certainty and positivity to replace the…