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. Bobby Miller:

To put numbers on what Mr. Dempsey said, 20 years ago global grain production was roughly 1.7 billion tonnes; today it is expected to be 2.4 billion tonnes. A chunk of that is coming to us because people are literally trying to get rid of it and push it into whatever market will take it. That is our pressure.