Farm groups urge local authorities to co-operate over gritting of roads

FARMING businesses and communities have been severely impacted by this week’s weather crisis, according to all of the principal farmer organisations.

The ICMSA dairy chairman, Pat McCormack, has asked co-ops and processors to make allowances for the problems around freezing and storage being experienced by many farmers in the worst affected areas.

Mr McCormack said: “It is important that trucks make determined efforts to get up to farms, and that they liaise closely with individual farmers and local authorities so that milk is collected where that is at all possible.