'Immense frustration' amongst farmers over 'hammered' beef prices

"Adding insult to injury is the fact that factories had encouraged farmers to feed cattle for May and June."

Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association beef chairman Edmund Graham said that it has "never been more costly" to produce beef, and the "lack of any recognition of that fact has created a tinderbox situation out there".

Meat factories are being warned that their "continued assault" on beef prices is having a "devastating effect" at farm level, and is causing "immense frustration" amongst farmers. 

Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association beef chairman Edmund Graham said that the situation with beef prices has "reached a tipping point".