Protests may flare again for cattle prices

PROTESTS by farmers at falling cattle prices could flare up again at short notice, the IFA leader John Dillon warned at the national ploughing championships in Tullow, Co Carlow, yesterday.

Still recovering from a quad bike accident on his family farm in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, in which he broke his left leg, he said the IFA will monitor what the meat factories do regarding prices on an ongoing basis and if it has to take action, it will decide quickly.

“It will not take us any longer than a day to make our minds up if we have to,” he said.