Sector warning despite grain price rise

FARMERS have celebrated a 100% grain harvest price rise in two years.

But this price trend and other huge changes afoot in agriculture could leave some in the sector struggling to keep up.

At a seminar organised at the Ploughing Championships yesterday by the Irish Examiner, there were warnings of a “gruesome” end for some livestock farmers squeezed out by the high grain prices, and advice for other farmers not to jump carelessly on a grain bandwagon.