The President of the ICMSA Mr. John Comer, has welcomed the announcement by Ministers Coveney and Hogan of amendments to the Nitrates Regulations to support fodder production. Minister Coveney has announced an extra two weeks to the chemical fertiliser application period to the 30 September 2013 and also provision to discount the first half tonne of [...read more...]
The ICMSA President, John Comer, said that while the extension is welcome, the overall response is still falling well short of what is required. Mr Comer pointed out that during a previous fodder crisis in 1999 the then-Government allocated €10 million to a fodder scheme to remedy a situation that was less serious and of [...read more...]
The Deputy President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has accused the state’s biggest processors of sitting on vastly improved market returns while watching their suppliers struggle and he has called on the processors to belatedly recognise the dire straits their suppliers are in and to set proper prices that reflect to a meaningful degree the kind [...read more...]
In welcoming the announcement by the Irish Dairy Board of a €2m fund for its dairy farmers, Mr. John Comer, President of ICMSA, said that this was a very welcome and badly-needed initiative from the Irish Dairy Board and it is essential that Co-ops pay this fund directly to dairy farmers as soon as possible [...read more...]