Farm leader urges pay freeze for food sector
Pat O’Rourke, president, warned at the Association’s annual general meeting in Limerick that farmers could not be part of a new national agreement unless the decline in farm incomes was positively addressed in the negotiations.
He said the last national agreement, the PPF, failed totally to deliver what was agreed on farm incomes. When the PPF was negotiated in 1999, farmers had suffered a fall of 20% in their income over the previous three years.
