Sheep farmers will meet in Dublin tonight to consider resuming protest action at six meat processing plants following reports that the factories are to reduce prices being paid for spring lambs later this week.
The farmers, who had staged a week long protest at factories, resumed supplying lamb after working out a price agreement with the companies.
This morning the IFA said it was alarmed that the factories may again reduce the price they pay for spring lamb to €3.92 a kilo, from the weekend.
The IFA says this is well below what farmers in Britain and France are paid, and below the €4.75 per kilo deal agreed with plants last week.
The chairman of the IFA Sheep and Lamb Committee, Larry Fallon, said farmers are extremely angry at the latest development and it was very possible that they would return to the picket line.
Tonight's meeting at IFA headquarters will be attended by sheep breeders from all over the country.
