Calls for an emergency fund to be set up for tillage farmers have so far been rejected at a government level.
Fianna Fáil Agriculture Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue has hit out at the Agriculture Minister for ruling out any possibility of such a fund.
The sector has been badly hit this year because of unusually wet weather this summer.
Michael Chance, IFA Chair in Donegal is a tillage farmers, he says this is disappointing and he hopes for a more positive outcome from the Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan when the IFA meets him in Brussels on Thursday:
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