Grain growers seek talks after steep drop in price offers

GRAIN growers have requested a meeting with Guinness and Greencore to discuss prices, after the IFA rejected Greencore Malt’s offer of €165 per tonne for malting barley.

IFA grain committee chairman Colum McDonnell said malting barley growers have significant cost increases of more than €30 per tonne and the price offered has been cut by €40 compared to last year.

Meanwhile, growers have been struggling through a weather-disrupted harvest. Some crops were devastated by last week’s downpours in Munster.