Ireland

IFA urges the authorities to take action on factories and cattle prices

Beef

The Irish Farmers' Association expected the authorities to call the factories to task on the cattle price issue.

Posted on Jul 24 ,06:26

IFA urges the authorities to take action on factories and cattle prices

IFA President Joe Healy 

repeated his call on Minister Creed to call in the factories and tell them bluntly to stop cutting the cattle price. “It’s time the Minister demonstrated he is on the farmers side.” He said the Minister has undertaken a lot of work on market access but it’s not giving a return back to farmers. 

Joe Healy said the meat factories have taken advantage of their suppliers during the severe drought conditions. He said the factories have cuts cattle prices unnecessarily over recent weeks destabilising the beef market and eroding confidence in the sector. He said “beef farmers feel very let down by the factories”.

 NEWSLETTER - Stay informed with the latest news!

Comments





Similar articles

AUSTRALIA

MLA: Australian cattle herd in official destock

The data, analysed by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), shows that the last quarter was the l...


Read more Read more
BRAZIL

JBS Fund and Basa sign agreement for credit to small producers in Pará

The partnership aims to facilitate access to Pronaf Mais Alimentos credit for 1,500 family farmer...


Read more Read more
UK

UK: NPA welcomes confirmation of 12-month EUDR delay

The European Commission proposed the delay in early October in response to concerns raised by mem...


Read more Read more
Websolutions by Angular Software and SpiderClass