IFA begins campaign to address farm crisis

FARMERS have their backs to the wall like never before, the IFA claimed yesterday, when it announced details of a family farm survival campaign.

John Dillon, IFA president, said a nationwide week-long tractor protest, starting next Monday, will be the first phase in the campaign.

Tractors will leave every county in the country and converge on Dublin at lunchtime on Friday, January 10, for a rally outside Government Buildings A tractorcade that will leave Bantry, Co Cork, will stop for a protest in Clonakilty, home town of Agriculture and Food Minister Joe Walsh, before continuing on its journey.