Charges for clipping sheep? You must be clippin’ joking

IFA National Sheep Chairman John Lynskey said farmers are strongly opposed to the lamb factories imposing clipping charges on sheep slaughtered. He said the across-the-board clipping charge being applied by some lamb factories on all sheep is working against and undermining the Department of Agriculture Clean Sheep Policy.

He said the IFA and Department worked hard in producing a guide for the Clean Sheep Policy and its implementation is now being undermined by some of the factories.