Call for additional payment in Sheep Improvement Scheme to assist with wool costs
Current wool prices are "disappointingly low".
A senator has called for there to be an additional payment in the new Sheep Improvement Scheme to specifically assist farmers with the costs associated with wool.
Speaking in the Seanad this week, Erin McGreehan said that this could prove to be a short-term way to support farmers with shearing and handling wool, and sorting out the dagging and the bagging of wool in a clean way, which has to be done for the wool merchant.
