Farmers in Ireland need to send a "clear message" on lamb prices, according to IFA

A public meeting is to be held on Monday (January,23) that aims to send a “clear message” on lamb prices and highlight the “dire state” the sector is in, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). Kevin Comiskey, the sheep chair of the IFA, told Agriland that a room “full of sheep farmers from every neck of the woods in Ireland is needed” to send a clear message – that if there is no intervention, there will be no future for the sector. The IFA sheep chair said: “I predicted this situation would occur with lamb prices when I met with Mike Magan at the National Fodder and Food Security Committee meeting last spring. “We [the IFA] put a strong case forward to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, that there was going to be pressure on lamb prices in the backend of 2022 into 2023. “It was pointed out to us about the fodder crisis and the supports made by the department to aid farmers in making fodder, but we told him that silage won’t finish ...