Poultry sector turn to processors for cost recovery

Farmers wants an additional 15c a chicken and 2c per egg

'It is “critical that we meet the processors and that they recover our costs from the marketplace for us.'

Poultry farmers have turned their drive for price increases towards the processing sector, this week writing to three major Irish processors asking them to take part in talks on recovering producers’ higher input costs, the Irish Examiner understands.

Irish Farmers’ Association poultry committee chairman Nigel Sweetnam said a “scary” situation faced poultry farmers.