Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is seeking laboratory services to test samples for BSE and scrapie.
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) is inviting tenders for testing equipment for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie.
Rural Life
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) has confirmed that a full fallen animal collection service has resumed across the country.
The ICSA has called for an investigation into rendering costs due to the ongoing fallen animal collection dispute.
Senator Lombard has said that, geographically, the option of taking fallen animals to Northern Ireland "doesn’t work" for all counties.
Minister Charlie McConalogue has said the first option for farmers with fallen animals should be to contact their animal collector
The Sinn Féin agriculture spokesperson has called on Minister Charlie McConalogue to intervene in the fallen animals collection dispute.
A senator in Co. Clare has called for the CCPC to intervene in the ongoing dispute between knackeries and rendering plants.
The IFA has hit out at the Department of Agriculture (DAFM) over its "inaction" on a dispute between knackeries and rendering plants.
A senator has called on Minister Charlie McConalogue to intervene in a dispute between knackeries and rendering plants.
Knackery owner John Hastings has said owners are calling on DAFM to resolve what he described as an ongoing "strike"
It appears that a dispute over the price of rendering fallen animals between rendering plants and knackeries is set to escalate.
Knackeries will resume testing sheep for the disease scrapie today (Monday, January 16), the Animal Collectors Association (ACA) has said.
The IFA has criticised what it describes as the failure of the Department of Agriculture, to address "key issues" in dealing with knackeries.
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture has been criticised by the ICSA for not having a meeting of all stakeholders during its dispute with knackeries.
Knackeries made the decision to resume fallen animal collection services for "environmental and health reasons", according to the ACA.
The ICMSA has warned that the dispute between the knackeries and the department cannot be resolved "by passing the cost onto the farmers".
Knackeries across the country will resume services and be open for business this morning, according to the ACA.
The ACA is being called on to resume fallen animal collections while talks take place between the association and the department.
Knackery representative group the ACA is to meet the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine this afternoon for talks.
The Department of Agriculture has been urged by the ICSA to convene an emergency meeting of stakeholders over the knackery dispute.
Knackeries have requested an emergency meeting from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, according to the ACA.
The Department of Agriculture has issued storage advice for farmers with dead animals amid the ongoing strike being held by knackeries.
