Farm leaders are failing to maintain their members’ incomes

AS a farmer I am amazed at how our organisations are failing to maintain our incomes.

They have at their disposal the best imaginable tool to ensure their members’ income is maintained — food, the most important fuel of all. Yet our representatives can’t use it to get us a decent income. Why?

We farmers are becoming fewer on the ground and getting busier every day, so much so it is now impossible for many of us to leave the land to go demonstrating for a day.