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ICMSA has welcomed the decision by Minister for Justice, Heather Humphreys, to delay the implementation of new laws requiring easements or rights of way to be registered with the Circuit Court or Property Registration Authority by November 30. Pat McCormack, President of ICMSA, said that the question was too important and fraught to allow matters proceed where there was any degree of confusion and misunder-

standing. Mr McCormack said that questions around ‘rights’ were always a matter where it was more important to take the time to ‘get it right’ than it was to overlook the details and ‘get it done’.

“ICMSA supports this decision by Minister Humphreys. We think that the proposed review around the desirability and function of the proposed changes is a good idea and we’d ask all the parties to this problematic and diffi-

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Budget 2022 has to give practical support to farmers for “climate change measures” The President of ICMSA has said that the upcoming Budget 2022 will have to offer serious practical help to the state’s 100,000-plus farming families as the sector prepares to transition to lower emissions and more climate efficient production.

Speaking after meetings with the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohue, and Minister for Public Expenditure, Michael McGrath, Pat McCormack said that the farm organisation had made very specific and targeted proposals across taxation, envi-

ronment and farm schemes that will move the position forward in a rational, cost efficient and measured way. It was up now to Ministers Donohoe and McGrath to examine and weigh the benefits undoubted that would flow from accepting and implementing the proposals or to continue the current Government policy of loading more and more regulation onto farmers while simultaneously cutting the levels of practical support and funding.

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tively have two budgets this year: one financial one climateand related, at this stage the latter is as important as the former. By the end of the year, there will a great deal more detail about what needs to be done and by what stage. Farmers are braced to take up the challenge but that is going to require active and practical help. We’ve outlined how we think that should be structured, but the most important thing is that the Government realise that, somehow ‘standing back and watching’ is

not an option here: only they can give this the momentum to move it forward and we’ve given them a suite of measures that we think will provide some of that momentum”, said Mr. McCormack.

ICMSA has again called for a Farm Management Deposit Scheme that is a revenue-approved method of dealing with utterly destructive income volatility allowing farmers to deposit money in ‘Good’ years and access it in ‘Bad’.

ICMSA has also called for a widening of taxa-

tion bands and 3% stamp duty on the sale of agricultural land.

On the environment, they want no VAT on low emissions LESS equipment, as well as a 60% grant on LESS equipment and other environmental investments purchased through a properly funded TAMS II. Continuing that theme, a rebate system should be introduced to encourage the switch from CAN to Protected Urea. In addition to a properly resourced TAMS II, the organisation thinks that a reformed and funded

Agri-environment scheme could attract an additional 10,000 participants next year.

The surge of interest in the Department’s piloted dairy calf-tobeef scheme – an initiative proposed by ICMSA – strongly indicates that a better resourced scheme would have even more applicants with proven emissions reductions and better returns for individual farmers. A payments ‘break’ for farmers suffering from outbreaks of bovine TB would cost paltry sums and would function along the lines of

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The organisation has also called for shortterm incapacitation benefits to be extended to the self-employed so that farmers – “the

most dangerous occupation in Ireland” – can enjoy a similar levels of social protection to those available to workers in other much less dangerous sectors, concluded Mr. McCormack.

Schools webinar series “Agri Aware Dig In” Launched Heydon, Martin Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture paid tribute to Ireland’s ‘vibrant’ agri-food sector at the recent launch of Agri Aware’s new Dig In! webinar series for schools. Agri Aware is bringing their Dig In! educational resource to life with added modules and new series of in classroom webinars.

Dig In! is a primary school curriculumlinked resource to help children learn about agriculture, life on the farm and in the countryside.

The new ‘Fun Fridays’ webinar series will run from October to December with ten episodes covering a range of topics

including dairy, the environment, horses, farm safety and pigs.

Dig In! is available to all schools through the Agri Aware website www.agriaware .ie and schools can also sign up for the Fun Fridays webinar series there.

Welcoming the opportunity to relaunch Dig In! Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Martin Heydon said: “I want to commend Agri Aware for its tireless work in ensuring all of our primary school students have the opportunity to learn about life on Irish farms.

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the environment, while others may work in our vibrant agri-food sector. All of them will be consumers of Irish produce. Dig In! is therefore an important initiative that can help tie all these different elements together. As Minister of State with special responsibility for Farm Safety I particularly welcome the focus on keeping children safe on farms.

Creating a culture of safety starts at a young age and must go hand in hand with everything we do on our farms.”

Alan Jagoe, Chairman of Agri Aware

“We are said: delighted to launch Dig In! once again this year. The new digital element is a reflection on how education and delivery of education has changed since the start of the pandemic. Agriculture has remained a crucial and constant supply of high-quality food and produce and those are all highlighted in our Dig In! resources for Primary Schools. Dig In! has been so important in maintaining a connection between young consumers and where their food comes from”.

Alan Jagoe, Agri Aware Chairman, Minister Martin Heydon, Aimee Gray, Agri Aware Education Officer and Marcus O’Halloran, Agri Aware Executive Director.

McDermott calls for survey on McConalogue continues CAP die back on ash trees on N52 consultation tour in Westmeath

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Cllr. Frank McDermott (FG) asked the Municipal District of Mullingar Kinnegad to ask the district to carry out a survey of die back on ash trees on the N52 Delvin to Clonmellon and was told that roadside trees on field boundaries are the responsibility of the landowners to maintain.

Landowners should have their trees inspected frequently and take whatever measures necessary to ensure the roadside trees do not present a hazard to the public. This matter has been discussed with the NRDO and they are

seeking the advice of the Transport Infrastructue Ireland (TII) in relation to a policy for dealing with Ash Die Back along National Road verges.

Cllr McDermott stressed he would like to see the district engineer “have a look and see is there any danger involved” with Cllr Hazel Smyth (GP) adding that if the audit could be conducted using an arborist.

Director of Services, Deirdre O’Reilly said the survey would fall under the remit of the transportation section and said she would pass his comments on. “We will also await response from

the NRO through TTI in relation to treatment of ash die back.”

At the same meeting, he asked the district to consider designing an extension to our looped walk, to include along the bank of the Glore river to Traynor’s bridge, the Distillery, Gallaghers Moateens, etc.

We are aware of the great work being done and would encourage the community to develop a proposal for consideration by the Community section for funding for next year under Outdoor Recreation, LEADER, etc.

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, will continue his Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) Consultation Tour in Westmeath on Wednesday, 29 September. The Minister will speak at Delvin Mart at 11am.

The Minister plans to visit every county to hear directly from farmers as part of the CAP consultation process over the coming weeks. Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan must be submitted before 1 January 2022 in order to have the new CAP in place for

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue January 2023.

Details on mart visits will be released through agri, social and local media. Interested farmers are encouraged to contact

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UN Food Summit “won’t even address the core problem – let alone solve it” - ICMSA Speaking days before Minister McConalogue represents Ireland at the U.N. Food Systems Summit, the President of ICMSA has said that the possibility of anything meaningful emerging from the conference was “virtually nil”. Mr. Pat McCormack said that until the dominant role of multinational retail corporations in global food systems was addressed, there was no chance whatsoever of introducing the kind of fundamental shift towards environmental and economic sustainability that these kinds of grandiose summits advertised.

Mr McCormack said that Minister McConalogue carried the best wishes of Irish farmers with him to the summit, but there was no corresponding confidence that the core problems around food system reform would even be addressed, let alone solved. As an example, Mr McCormack cited the the Irish ‘Pathway’ paper, published to coincide with the Summit, and noted that there was not a single reference in it to the pricing of food, the one element without which it’s not possible to understand either the challenge or possible solutions.

“I read the Irish ‘Pathways’ document that sets out our position and have to admit to being very disappointed. There is not a single reference in it to establishing the real economic and environmental cost of producing food and then ensuring that that cost is met by either the consumers or the retailers who sell to the consumers. I’ve said this before and I’m going to say it again: if we continue allowing the retailers to use

their market dominance to sell food at below its real cost, then we just don’t have a chance of doing anything as regards reform of the food systems. If government won’t insist on the market paying the real cost and continues to allow retail corporations to underpay their suppliers and undertheir cuscharge tomers, then everything else is just pointless and this summit can just join the already lengthy list of irrelevant events that make officials feel better but achieve absolutely nothing.”

The ICMSA President said that it was becoming more and more obvious that the only group who were singled out for regulation and mandatory measures were farmers and for everyone else it was just a case of: “See what you can do there, if you can be bothered, if you don’t mind.”

“We’re very aware of the dangers of oversimplification on this dizzyingly complex and overlapping issue.

But farmers would feel that if there was ever a case for reverse-engineering our way to the starting point of an answer then reforming the food systems to make them more sustainable has to be the most feasible option.

We have to start with the fundamental fact that there is a real economic and environmental cost to producing sustainable food and that once this price has been established then it has to be paid by the consumer.

If we can’t even get to that self-evident truth, then, honestly, we haven’t a hope of getting to where we all know we need to get to”, said Mr McCormack.

National Ploughing Championships 2021 was a huge success The National Ploughing Championships, first established in 1931, celebrated its 90th anniversary in Ratheniska, Co Laois with the focus firmly back on the Association’s ploughing roots.

A true ‘Ploughing’ master class was on display with the finest ploughmen and women from all over the country battling it out on 150 acres in 22 separate classes over the three days as old friend’s reunited and

new marvellous memories were made.

Martin Kehoe from Wexford became the National Senior Conventional Ploughing Champion and Dan Donnelly from Wexford won the Senior

Reversible Contest. Siobhan Dermody from Co Kilkenny was crowned the ‘Queen of the Plough’ following her win in the farmerette class. Aisling O’Toole from Co Kildare was named the 2021

National Brown Bread Baker winning a prize fund of €15,000, her award winning loaf will be available to purchase in Aldi stores nationwide for the next year. This year’s overall Innovation Arena Awards

NPA Managing Director Anna May McHugh, President James Sutton and Chairman Mick Mahon congratulate the new National Conventional Ploughing Champion Martin Kehoe and the new National Reversible Ploughing Champion Dan Donnelly, both from Wexford.

with Enterprise Ireland winner was marine biotech company Brandon Bioscience in Tralee, Co Kerry.

In collaboration with the traditional fertiliser manufacturer Target Fertilisers, the company’s winning entry is an innovative new biostimulant product using extracts from common brown seaweed that has the potential to reduce chemical nitrogen input on farms by up to 20 per cent.

The best overall start-up award went to Jennifer and Kevin Corley, founders of EquiTrace which is an app that works with a horse’s microchip to identify, locate and track individual animals as they move while also recording animal temperature and health records when used with a Merck Bio-Thermo chip and scanner. Both the overall and best start-up Award winners will receive a prize fund of €5,000 each.

So as the final sod was turned in Ratheniska on Wedsnesday, 15th September signalling the end of the 2021 National Ploughing, thoughts are firmly on the 2022 event returning to Ratheniska next year, from 20 – 22 September.

Significant step in sheepmeat access to China - Protocols for export of sheep meat and breeding pigs signed - Ongoing engagement on the resumption of beef exports Significant advances in gaining access to the Chinese market for Irish sheepmeat were announced on 18 September by Charlie McConalogue TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Minister McConalogue and Minister NI of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) have signed and exchanged formal protocols that will pave the way for the export of sheepmeat and breeding pigs from Ireland to China.

China accounts for 38% of the global sheepmeat import market. In 2020, China’s sheep meat imports amounted to 365,000 tonnes and were valued at €1.47bn at current exchange rates.

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logue said: “The sheepmeat protocol that I have signed today represents an important milestone in gaining access to the Chinese market. China is a substantial importer of sheep meat, with a positive outlook for demand in the long term. I expect that, when the remaining steps are completed to enable trade to commence, exports will grow gradually over time, as Chinese consumers become familiar with the quality and taste of our Irish sheepmeat offering.”

A number of technical steps remain before GACC can include the list of approved plants on their website. In addition, before trade can commence, DAFM will have to put in place systems and safeguards to ensure compliance with protocol requirements on eligible product. This may take a number of months.

L-R: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue and Minister of State for new market development Martin Heydon.

BREEDING PIGS

Minister McConalogue and Minister NI also signed a protocol on live pigs, which sets out the quarantine and hygiene requirements for the export of highquality breeding pigs

to China.

BEEF ACCESS Department officials, through the Embassy of Ireland in Beijing, continue to engage positively with their Chinese counterparts with a view to re-opening market access for Irish

beef. However, the timing of that decision lies with the Chinese authorities. Minister McConalogue commented: “Regaining beef access to the Chinese market remains a priority. Our engage-

ment on these protocols is encouraging in this regard, and I hope that the Chinese authorities will soon be in a position to make a positive decision to allow exports to resume.”

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Local Agricultural Students Encouraged To Apply For John Feely Scholarships The John Feely Foundation has announced that applications are now being accepted for the four scholarships awarded by the group each year. A sum of €1,500 each is awarded to four students in

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