Major retailers warned falling livestock prices hurting farmers
As farmers protested outside a Tesco store, IFA president Eddie Downey warned the major retailers, including SuperValu, Dunnes, Aldi and Lidl, and the meat factories, that the cuts are severely damaging the country’s €2bn beef sector and must be reversed.
He said livestock farmers are extremely angry and frustrated over the way their incomes have been decimated this year by price and specification cuts imposed by retailers and factories.
