Steady fall in farmer share of consumer beef price

Analysis by the ICMSA has demonstrated that the margins taken on beef by retailers and processors continue to grow while the farmer’s share continues to decline steadily.

Successive farm leaders have pointed, scathingly, to the absolute gutlessness demonstrated by our own Government and their counterparts throughout the EU as more and more of the final retail price is grabbed by processors and retailers, while the primary producers are squeezed relentlessly and have to watch their margins manipulated downwards without so much as a squeak of protest from toothless regulators and competition authority bureaucrats.

Consistent decline