Farmers need a new strategy to restore profit margins and protect asset values

THE IFA has no strategy to deliver the 26 cent a litre viable milk price to us farmers, as I discovered when I put the question to one of their leading spokesmen at a recent meeting.

This price was mandated by more than 700 farmers at a meeting earlier in the year in Kilkenny, and IFA has failed to deliver on it.

This reflects a problem that is common to all farming organisations — they are clearly failing to put a line in the sand where others dare not cross.