Costs and pressures creating psychological strain, farming body says

Soaring costs and ever-increasing financial pressures are weighing heavily on the farming community with suicide or suicidal ideation a growing concern, a meeting of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, has heard.

“What worries me is that because of the rise in estimated prices we will be wiped out. If there was ever a year that we were going to be wiped out this is the year,” he told the meeting of 30 farmers at the Firgrove Hotel on Wednesday night. Mr O’Callaghan said farming had suffered from a lack of support from successive governments. He said the neglect of the sector was coming to the forefront now with possible shortages of items such as bread given the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine.

Mr O’Callaghan said farmers take on multiple roles on any given day and are fighting fires on many fronts. “A farmer is also an accountant, a mechanic and a vet and a psychologist because he has to keep it all balanced in his head.”He said the ICSA planned to hold a number of meetings in various counties and called on farmers to attend in large numbers.

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