Farm leader warns on price volatility

A senior farmer leader has warned that farm produce price volatility can seriously undermine the Food Harvest 2020 expansion plan.

ICMSA president John Comer told the 350 farmers at the AGM in Limerick of his increasing concern over whether Food Harvest 2020 will deliver farm profits.

“ICMSA certainly agrees that we can expand output at farm level. Whether that can be done profitably is the issue, and the lack of any meaningful attempt at EU level to deal with extreme price volatility places a huge question mark after all the plans contained in Food Harvest.”