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May 19, 2021 12:49 pm Next week marks a year since Irish beef exports to China were suspended and there are calls now for a “renewed effort” to have those exports reopened. The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has requested an update from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) on how the situation is progressing and how close we are to beef exports to the Asian country being reopened. Des Morrison, the association’s Livestock Committee chairperson sa...

SHARING OPTIONS: “We’d like to know because we need to know. We see this market reopening as a matter of priority.” Leading up to the first anniversary of China’s suspension of Irish beef imports, the ICMSA has requested a renewed effort towards a full reopening of that market. China suspended beef imports from Ireland during the last week of May 2020, following the confirmation of an atypical case of BSE. “The suspension was due to an atypical ...

SHARING OPTIONS: The ICMSA said there is a need for a scheme that bridges both the beef and dairy sector. The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) has said that with more than 8,000 applications received for the calf weighing scheme, there is evidence for greater integration of the dairy and beef sectors. Chair of the livestock committee Des Morrison said there is a need for a scheme that bridges both sectors and moves the integration process u...

The final application figures for the Dairy Beef Calf pilot programme "shows scope" for integration between the dairy and beef sectors.

April 21, 2021 8:07 am Northern Irish steers are making €250/head more than their “southern” equivalent, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has claimed. Commenting on the matter, ICMSA livestock chairperson Des Morrison drew attention to the 70c/kg difference between ‘Northern’ beef prices and their ‘Southern’ counterparts. Morrison described the difference as “staggering and inexplicable”, estimating that this amounts to a difference of €250 to €300 ...

April 15, 2021 1:41 pm The closing date for the submission of payments claims relating to the Dairy Beef Calf Programme is looming, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has warned. Urging farmers to get payment claims in before the closing date of Monday, April 26, the association highlighted that applications can be made online at agfood.ie The funding for this year is €5 million and expected payment is €20 per head, according to ICMSA Livestock Committee chairman Des M...

April 9th, 2021 By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The immigrant population of the United Kingdom has done to boxing what the immigrant population in France has done to football. It has provided us with some exceptional sports people and Clinton Mackenzie, 36-14, 12 KO’s is a perfect example of this. Born, one of seven children in Jamaica, this light welterweight champion never forgot his heritage but has become such a piece of the fabric of British boxing life that his career has become ju...

Alan Salter only lived a short life, but he lived it to the full Remembering Peckhams popular Alan Salter, who died tragically young ONE of the biggest ticket-sellers to come out of London back in the 1970s was Alan Salter of Peckham. He was an exciting fighter and, although his record of 13 wins from 32 contests does not look much good on paper, he was rated as high as third in the British light-welterweight (now super-lightweight) class and he also boxed for the British title at that weight. ...

A "staggering" €200 gap has opened up between southern R3 steers and their Northern Irish equivalents, according to the ICMSA.

Seldom have I received so many angry phone calls from the finishing community. Calls that in the main dwell on the lack of clarity coming from the processing sector as to why prices have been hit so hard, with the phrase "hatchet job" used by several to describe the current situation. All three main farming organisations are united in their condemnation of the processing sectors recent actions with Des Morrison ICMSAs livestock chair asking if this "No notice" decision to pull prices is connect...