Any reduction in farmer margins 'will not be tolerated' as retail price war 'intensifies'

Aldi Ireland said that its latest round of price cuts "will have no impact whatsoever on the costs paid to our suppliers". 

Irish Farmers' Association poultry chairman Nigel Sweetnam has said that supermarkets are "demanding premium product at world commodity prices", but with "little or no regard to producers’ or processors’ costs of production".

Poultry farmers "will not tolerate cuts" to their margins as the retail price war "intensifies".

Irish Farmers' Association poultry chairman Nigel Sweetnam has said that supermarkets are "demanding premium product at world commodity prices", but with "little or no regard to producers’ or processors’ costs of production".