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First mart to be ready for EID sheep tagging by end of month – Creed

June 11, 2019

The first mart to have the capability and facilities to read electronic identification (EID) tags on sheep and lambs will be ready by…

How many marts and factories have EID readers installed?

June 4, 2019

Sheep

The extension of Electronic Identification (EID) to all sheep as of June 1, 2019, provides an opportunity to marts and slaughter plants to…

Sheep farmers will be ‘wiped out’ if prices are cut further – ICSA

June 2, 2019

Sheep

The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmer’s Association (ICSA) has warned that sheep farmers will be ‘wiped out’ if prices are cut during the…

What do farmers need to know about new sheep tagging rules?

May 31, 2019

Sheep

From tomorrow, Saturday, June 1, all sheep moved both on and off a holding must be identified electronically, in accordance with the new National…

Marts ‘in limbo’ ahead of Saturday’s tagging regulation changes

May 29, 2019

Sheep

As the switch to mandatory Electronic Identification (EID) tagging looms ahead of the June 1 transition date, some marts have expressed concerns about…

Some marts to be without EID scanning facilities after June 1

May 10, 2019

Sheep

Some marts will not have the facilities for reading electronic identification (EID) tags before June 1, when it will become mandatory for sheep…

ICSA: ‘Factories must have EID tag readers before June’

April 26, 2019

Sheep

Factories and marts must have electronic identification (EID) tag readers in place before June 1 this year, by which time all sheep leaving…

Green party calls for EID to be ‘postponed or scrapped’

April 15, 2019

Agri Politics

The Green Party has called for the scrapping or postponement of the Electronic Identification (EID) tagging system for sheep. It accused the Department of Agriculture,…

ICSA calls for compensation for ‘failed’ EID project

April 9, 2019

Sheep

The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has called for farmers to be compensated for the “failed” electronic identification (EID) tagging project.…

‘Spring lamb will not be as plentiful this Easter as it would usually be’

April 3, 2019

Agri Politics

While there is a shortage of spring lamb on the cards, it’s not something that farmers need to be overly concerned about, the…

Minister called on to ‘spare a thought for hill farmers’

March 5, 2019

Sheep

A Co. Sligo sheep farmer has called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed to extend single electronic tagging…

Factories to be allowed ‘off the hook’ with EID infrastructure

March 4, 2019

Sheep

Compulsory Electronic Identification (EID) tagging cannot be imposed on sheep farmers at an additional cost of €2 million per annum if marts and…

EID sheep tagging ‘isn’t going to happen’ mart managers warn

March 1, 2019

Sheep

Mart managers have warned this week that the Central Point of Recording (CPR) for EID sheep tagging will not be implemented by June…

Sheep trade: ‘There isn’t as many lambs out there as other years’

February 15, 2019

Sheep

“If farmers are strong and sit tight, €6.00/kg is there to be got for store lambs,” according to one Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, sheep…

Once-off EID sheep tag payments worth €365,000 commence

February 1, 2019

Sheep

The commencement of the first tranche of payments under the EID sheep tag subsidy scheme has been announced today (Friday, February 1) by…

IFA warns that Creed must deal with ‘unfair’ EID costs

October 30, 2018

Sheep

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has warned that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, will have to tackle the…

Farmer frustration: ‘Everyone else along the line is protected’

September 13, 2018

Sheep

Once lambs leave the farmer’s gate at the start of the food supply chain, everyone else along the chain is protected financially, Irish…

EID tagging: New markets are a ‘pie in the sky suggestion’

September 13, 2018

Sheep

The promised benefit of new markets opening up to Irish lamb due to the introduction of electronic identification (EID) tagging has been dismissed…

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