Elderly dairy farmers get raw deal on quotas

THANK you for highlighting the abuse of the elderly (January 28) and for Eamon Timmins’s feature article (January 29).

I am 72 years old. For the past seven to eight years there has been a sustained attack on elderly and incapacitated dairy farmers to push us out of dairying and to acquire our milk quotas at a totally undervalued price.

There have been many changes in the quota regime over the years, all of which were designed to take money out of the pockets of those who can no longer continue milking, mostly the elderly and incapacitated.