Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. John Spink:
There are opportunities to add value. We have an immediate problem driven by low prices and high input costs for grain in the world. We cannot do anything about the world's grain prices but we can advise farmers how to use inputs as efficiently as possible and get the biggest bang for their buck. Longer term, we need to add value so that the market returns a viable income to tillage farmers. We are not going to do it overnight but we need to do what the dairy sector did, however many decades ago it was, by adding value to the milk. One might argue that we should have started 20 or 30 years ago.
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