Farmers could do with a benchmark deal

AS a farmer I was angered by Competition Authority chairman John Fingleton's annual report (Irish Examiner, March 2) which ignored the fact that farmers get less every year because of the power of the supermarkets to get bigger profits from our food.

He said producer-driven needs have taken precedence over the consumer. The CSO figures show the opposite: we farmers are the producers and our income is back 33% in real terms since 1995.

The problem with our farming organisations is that they have no policies to protect our income, and this does a serious injustice to their members.