SHARING OPTIONS: Cattle and sheep farmers have again been marginalised in the latest call for applications to the organic scheme, according to the ICSA.\David Ruffles Drystock farmers must not be discriminated against in any future rounds of the Organic Farming Scheme, Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) organics chair Fergal Byrne has said. Byrne was speaking at a meeting between Minister of State Pippa Hackett an ICSA representatives on Tuesday (9 February). “Cattle and sheep farmers have again been marginalised in the latest call for applications to the scheme," he said. “This is very discouraging, and clearly out of step with wider ambitions to vastly increase the proportion of land devoted to organic production across Europe by 2030. ICSA believes that drystock farmers must not be discriminated against in any future rounds of the organics scheme.”