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

Published Jan 21, 2023

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The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is organizing a public meeting to address the critical state of the lamb sector and call for fair prices. IFA's sheep chair, Kevin Comiskey, has urged the Department of Agriculture, factories, and Bord Bia to intervene, highlighting the need for direct supports and the importance of the US market. He also emphasized that sheep farmers, especially those facing lambing ewes, require financial support to continue. The meeting aims to bring together farmers from across Ireland to present a unified message about the urgent need for action to secure the future of the sector.

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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 ...

Source: AgriLand