Jan 15th, 2010

ICMSA meet the Livestock Producers and Suppliers Association and agree on the new price grid 

ICMSA representatives met officials of the Livestock Producer and Suppliers Association last Friday in Portlaoise and both sides agreed that the new price grid would inevitably lead to lower prices being paid to farmers. ICMSA repeated their criticism that the grid is designed to discriminate against animals from the dairy herd and that the prices being paid were completely unverifiable and un-checkable. Both organisations also discussed the possibility that the grid might form part of a wider agenda whereby continental-type cattle will be paid a premium in an effort to stop the Italian live export trade with that premium being effectively subsidised through lower prices for Frisian animals. Stephen Foley, Chairman of the Livestock Producers and Suppliers Association, said that he agreed with the ICMSA view that the bottom line of the new price grid was that the majority of farmers would receive less for their animals.

Ends.     15 January 2010

Jackie Cahill, 087-2820663

President, ICMSA

Or

 Cathal MacCarthy, 087-6168758 or 061-314677

ICMSA Press Office

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