TAMS review taking far too long - ICMSA
Pat O’Brien, the Chairperson of ICMSA Farm Business Committee, has forcefully urged the Department of Agriculture to complete its review of TAMS reference costs and proceed immediately with the increases that all farmers are aware must follow.
This delay is effectively jamming up the system as interested farmers await the publication of the review that will – it is hoped - reconnect the TAMS costings with the real price of essential elements such a concrete and steel, he explained.
“We had raised just this point at the recent Farmers’ Charter meeting and we hope we impressed upon the officials that if the grants towards helping farmers to improve water quality to be effective, then the grants themselves must be relevant to the actual costs of building materials, not some imaginary or obsolete figures that bear no relation to reality,” he said.
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IFA grain farmers gather in Carlow
The IFA’s National Malting Barley Growers held a meeting in Carlow last week at which several matters concerning this group of specialised crop generators were aired and they also had the opportunity to share information and express their concerns for their sector.
Chairman of the Association’s Grain Committee Kieran McEvoy was in charge of proceedings and the members heard the proposals and advice of the UK and Ireland Managing Director of Boortmalt, Stuart Sands and the company’s Barley Procurement Manager for this region, Jonathan Roberts.
The Boortmalt advisors said that the FOB Creil pricing mechanism, so critical to the viability of the Irish malting barley sector, would remain in place and that another forward offer would be forthcoming.
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