‘Dairy farmers are facing the real prospect of having zero income in 2016’

Dairy farmers are facing the real prospect of having zero income in 2016, according to the President of the ICMSA, John Comer.
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Comer said that months and months of loss-making have combined to destroy dairy businesses and farmers confidence and he called on the Government to focus immediately on the depressed milk price farmers receive.
Comer said that the dairy crisis has resulted in a “haemorrhaging” of money out of rural districts.
Farmers income have dropped by more that €600m, he said, and as a result the rural economy has lost well in excess of €1 billion.
The ICMSA leader also hit out at the Programme for Government, describing its policy on the dairy crisis as “lamentable and effectively non-existent.”
Comer said that farmers would be stunned to see how the present milk price disaster was dealt with in just six-odd sentences of platitudes and vague aspirations.

Dairy Crisis Demands A Real Response

Comer continued to say that the gravity of the situation demanded a real response that would put a floor under milk prices that were now approaching a full year of below cost production.
It was depressing and shocking beyond belief to see that the new Government seemed to not have a single coherent policy that farmers could look to for relief from this unprecedented price collapse, he said.
He said that Minister Creed was entitled to all our best wishes in his endeavours and a period of grace while he looked at the situation.
But, the policies set out in the Programme for Government did not augur well and indicated a Government still unwilling or unable to get to grips with the implications and reasons behind the complete income wipe-out being suffered by Irish dairy farmers, Comer said.

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Así lo expresó Domingo Possetto, secretario de la seccional Rafaela, quien además, afirmó que a los productores «habitualmente los ignoran los gobiernos». Además, reconoció la labor de los empresarios de las firmas locales y aseguró que están «esperanzados» con la negociación entre SanCor y Adecoagro.

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