Farmers 'hammered in name of bringing down food prices'
Most primary producers are operating with 'tiny margins and have next to no bargaining powers'. ICSA beef chairman Edmund Graham has again called for the Agri-Food Regulator to "forensically investigate who is making what along the food chain, and to expose profiteering", he said.
Farmers fear they are "the ones being hammered in the name of bringing down food prices", a farm organisation has said.
Most primary producers are operating with "tiny margins and have next to no bargaining powers when it comes to negotiating with the big retailers", the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association said.
