Agri Politics
Government measures unveiled today (Tuesday, March 24) to address rising fuel costs will not protect food production, according to the ICSA.
Rural Life
The spike in fuel costs due to the Middle East conflict could see the cost of producing silage "double" a farming organisation has warned.
Beef
The ICSA has reacted angrily to the confirmation that the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement will come into force on May 1.
Beef farmers are facing a "crisis of confidence" due to falling factory prices, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) said.
There are further calls for the calculation of limits on slurry imports to be based on the preceding year's figures.
Agri-Business
There has been reaction from the farm organisations to the announcement of changes to the bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) Financial Support Programme.
Ireland will take up the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU from July 1, and will hold that position until December 31.
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon said his attention has turned to monitoring potential market impacts of the EU-Mercosur deal.
A raft of new actions to curtail the spread of TB are set to be introduced next month, Minister Martin Heydon has indicated.
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Minster for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has ruled out adding more farm...
Minster for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has ruled out adding more farm organisations to the board of Bord Bia.
The ICSA has called on the European Commission to prioritise bioethanol imports over "unnecessary beef imports" from Brazil.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) slammed the European Commission's decision to push ahead with the EU-Mercosur deal.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) has said that winter beef finishers are facing "massive losses".
Sheep
The sheep sector is "under severe pressure" as Irish prices "fall well behind", the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) said.
Beef prices may have steadied in recent weeks but they remain off the level needed to 'keep beef farmers viable' according to the ICSA.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) has called for a review of the level of grain...
The Bord Bia chair was not present at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food tonight but he was a key topic of conversation.
The Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and farm organisations will discuss the potential for loss of confidence in the Irish beef sector.
The ICSA has claimed the recent drop-off in beef prices is "disgraceful" and that processors are "deliberately" keeping prices down.
The chairperson of Bord Bia has been called on to accept an invitation to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture.
Dairy
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) has said it is "acutely disappointed" that bluetongue has been detected in Co. Wexford.
The ICSA called on Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon to reconsider his support for Bord Bia chair, Larry Murrin.
