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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 Morrison. Male dairy calves and both male and female dairy beef calves will be eligible for the schem...

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 just part of his boxing story. His fighting story is incredible. A British and European champion he fo...

Alan Salter only lived a short life, but he lived it to the full Remembering Peckham's 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. Born in 1950, Alan died just nine days after his 35th birthday, having lain in a coma for the seven...

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 ICMSA's livestock chair asking if this "No notice" decision to pull prices is connected to the need for feedlots to restock? "Having emptied their feedlots are they going into the mart...