Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Future of Tillage Sector: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Bobby Miller:

The specifications regarding the quality we need to grow the crop have become very tight because the customer wants it. For this sector to survive, the farmer needs a minimum of an extra €40 per tonne. That is the equivalent of 0.1% of the price of a pint of Guinness in the countryside. I do not know what it is in the city. When one looks at the retail price of the product, one can see that we are asking for very little to support the tillage farmer.