IFA seeks budget to support farm incomes

The Government must deliver on short-term measures in the Budget to directly support farm incomes, the Irish Farmers Association declared yesterday.

Joe Healy, president, launching the association’s pre-Budget submission in Dublin, said longer-term measures to tackle income volatility must also be delivered.

“A farm income crisis is being experienced in many sectors in Ireland in 2016, caused by a combination of low product prices, a bad spring, and negative political events. Farm families are under huge pressure as cash flow tightens and the viability of their family farm is put at risk.