VIDEO: Another veg grower quits over 'below-cost' prices

'If you don’t get paid for what you sell, you’re wasting your time. It’s a non-runner from the start'

Vegetable grower Willie Lenane at his roadside stall beside the busy N25 at Youghal Bridge, Co Cork. He says vegetable producers can no longer compete with low cost imports and below cost selling practices by the big supermarkets. Picture: Larry Cummins

Another horticultural grower has said this season will be his last.

Youghal brassicas grower William Lenane has spent almost seven decades in the industry. He grows 20 acres of grain, 10 acres of potatoes and a further five acres of horticultural vegetables, but says that the derisory prices of veg on the market mean that he will be forced to stop growing veg at the end of this season.