ICSA stand on Mercusor trade deal remains firm
The ICSA’s Sean McNamara has been a particularly strong opponent to the Mercosur deal and he was the principal speaker at a protest meeting outside Leinster House earlier in the month.
What appeared in The Farmers’ Journal is further justification for the Association’s virulent opposition to the deal, he confirmed.
“Farmers are sick of being told that the government ‘opposes’ Mercosur while nothing changes.
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ICMSA hit out at curious use of word ‘correcting’ by processors
The use of several expressions by the meat processors might be amusing in some regard but they do not mask the reality in the situations in the meat industry in Ireland at the present time, the chairman of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee, Michael O’Connell, said last week.
These sayings tend to get repeated continually whenever it is evident that there is a stiffening in supplies in prospect, he explained.
“Our advice is to be very sceptical of the ‘control mechanisms’ that factories are trying to apply; they are in their peak Christmas ‘kill’ period and the demand for beef is intense. As we always say, the ‘data doesn’t lie’ and slaughter throughput this year has drastically reduced versus 2024. We have all read and heard the factories expressing frustration about the stability of their future supplies of cattle,” he stated.
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