My Last Crop: Irish grower quits warning the horticulture industry is 'facing extinction'
Vegetable grower Cahal Lenehan with some of the remaining cabbage on the farm at Garlow Cross. Picture: Barry Cronin
It's peak season on Irish tillage farms, yet one Co Meath yard is eerily still as Cahal Lenehan finishes his last season as a grower.
Mr Lenehan said he does not think he will be the last Irish grower to quit if input costs continue to spiral, warning that the industry could soon be consigned to history unless farm-gate prices for vegetables increase significantly.
