Raise beet prices if you want a crop, farmers warn

GREENCORE has not moved beyond the price it offered last December for the 2006 beet crop, the Irish Farmers Association claimed yesterday after a meeting with the company’s senior management in Dublin.

IFA Beet Committee chairman Peadar Jordan said Greencore will have to come forward with a better price package, including transport, to guarantee delivery of a beet crop for processing in 2006.

A further meeting between the IFA and Greencore is due to be held next week as decision time approaches on whether beet will be grown in Ireland this year.