Angus Woods: Tillage farmers are treated as the poor relation – even by their own co-op
It is unfair for Tirlán to hand generous supplementary payments for dairy members, while only offering an advance payment for tillage
'There is a feeling among the tillage farmers I’ve spoken to that the sector is being neglected, politically and financially'. Photo: Damien Eagers
Tractors have been working night and day round here since the weather improved to try to get through the backlog of field-work that should have been completed in March.
Sowing is already a week behind where we were at this time in 2023, which itself was considered a late sowing season.
