Budget 2026: Larger parties are not honouring their pre-budget promises to farmers

Pat Collins, tillage farmer Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

The announced €50m awarded to the tillage sector is “just another nail in the coffin,” explains Cork-based tillage farmer Pat Collins.

Mr Collins from Castlemartyr, Cork, who plants and harvests spring and winter barley, maize, sugar beet and beans on his farm, told the Irish Examiner that the newly announced budget was “very disappointing.”