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The Department of Agriculture has been urged to reopen the Calf Investment Scheme (CIS) by the Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) livestock chair Des Morrison.
Morrison said while the scheme was a positive undertaking by the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, it was “grossly underfunded and didn’t adequately cover certain worthy investments”.
€1.5m fund
The scheme had a fund of €1.5m and closed for applications on 28 January 2020.
Morrison said the support for mobile teat feeders was inadequate: “The advice suggests we get our calves out to grass earlier, yet the feeders needed to make this happen were not specifically accommodated for in the scheme.”
He called on the Department to amend the scheme so mobile feeders were covered.
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