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Call for action after 'inexplicable' cut to beef prices Reporter: ');  '); Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) beef chair Edmund Graham has said the pace at which the Beef Taskforce is conducting its business is far too slow and has called for greater scope for farm organisations to compel the Taskforce to meet. “Beef prices have been inexplicably cut in recent weeks and ICSA wants answers as to why this is happening,” he said.  “Unfortunately, we have been left high and dry by the Beef Taskforce which has not met since December of last year. We are still in the middl...

Frustrations over a lack of clarity on the next sitting of the Beef Market Taskforce flared in the Dáil yesterday. In parliamentary questions, Michael Fitzmaurice independent TD for Roscommon-Galway urged Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue to consider live streaming taskforce meetings from now on, while Clare independent Michael McNamara demanded answers on why the stakeholder grouping has not sat since December 2020. The heightened pressure to convene the taskforce comes as farmers have been hit with cuts in beef prices from between €40/hd and €60/hd for finished stock in recent w...

The Minister for Agriculture, Bord Bia and the country’s meat processors are being urged to provide “absolute commitment” to the development of a suckler beef brand. Speaking at this evening’s ICSA agm the farm organisation’s new president, Dermot Kelleher, called on Minister Charlie McConalogue to demonstrate this “drive” by attaching “conditionality” to the €100m Brexit support scheme for the food processing sector announced last month. “There must be absolute commitment from all stakeholders to turn this dream to reality. The first steps have been taken at the Beef Ta...

Public consultation on how to strengthen GI system launched by commission The European Commission has launched a public consultation on how to strengthen the geographical indications (GI) system. It is inviting citizens and organisations as well as national and regional public authorities to contribute to the assessment. The EU protects almost 3,400 names of specific products – agricultural products and foodstuffs, fishery and aquaculture products, wines, spirit drinks – under one of its quality schemes: GI; Protected Designations of Origin (PDO); Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)...

As the old saying goes, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’. However, when the Beef Stakeholders meetings were set up in 2019 following the beef protests and blockades, the interests of the consumers who buy beef were apparently overlooked. It appears this oversight is now coming back to haunt the members of the Department of Agriculture’s Beef Task Force. As part of the Irish Beef Sector Agreement (September 15, 2019) 2019, it was agreed to undertake “an independent review of market and customers’ requirements specifically in relation to the four in-spec bonus criteria currently...