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The President of ICMSA, Jackie Cahill, said that while he welcomed the funding being made available for farmers affected by the flooding, there needed to be more urgency about the delivery of aid to the farmers concerned. He complimented the work of...
After the exceptional rainfall in recent days, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will have to introduce exceptional measures to allow farmers implement a clean-up operation on their farms and to ensure that adequate slurry storage will...
At a Pre-Budget meeting with the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, the ICMSA President, Jackie Cahill, said it was foolhardy to rely on the banks making credit available at a competitive interest rate to the productive sector of the economy. Mr...
In the month of October, the gap between Irish and UK beef prices has grown by a further €60 per head bringing the gap to over €150 per head at a time when Irish beef farmers are on their knees. There is absolutely no justification for such a...
‘Last week’s Dutch quotation prices have risen again for butter and powders and with French farm gate prices over 30 cents per litre for August and Dutch milk prices nearly 33 cents per litre for October, it is quite clear that a major gap is now...