Minister Michael Creed must respond to income crisis

The severe income crisis in farming needs a strong response from the new minister for agriculture, writes Joe Healy, IFA president.

Now that a new Government is in place, we need immediate action to address unsustainably low incomes on Irish farms.

IFA made detailed proposals to the political parties in advance of the general election and during the government negotiations. A significant number of the measures contained in the Programme for Government reflect the issues raised by IFA and I look forward to working with Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed on the implementation of these measures.