IFA claim PRSI change will put farmers out of business, VFI condemns alochol price rise

Irish Farmers Association president John Bryan said the measures in Budget 2013, including changes to PRSI, will put some farmers out of business.

"Some farmers would have been quite dependent on suckler and grasslands scehemes," he said. "(The changes) will result in a drop in production, and in marginal areas may put some farmers out of business."