The Irish Farmers Association is planning a series of public meetings over the Budget.
IFA President Padraig Walshe said there is mounting anger in the farming community over the Government's Budget cuts, which he said hit 60,000 low income farmers the hardest.
Mr Walshe urged farmers and local politicians to attend meetings in Mayo, Cavan, Cork and Donegal over the next fortnight.
Mr Walshe said the cut in Disadvantaged Areas Payments directly hit the incomes of 40,000 farmers and contravened Government commitments that the weakest groups would not be targeted in the Budget.
He said the Government's attack on the 54,000 farmers participating in the Suckler Welfare Scheme comes as a further blow, hitting many of the same farmers.
Mr Walshe said young farmers were gutted by the shelving of the Installation Aid scheme.
'This is an outrageous attack on young people struggling to get established in farming. Our industry needs young trained farmers to take over from their parents and the axing of the Retirement Scheme has thrown the succession plans of hundreds of farm families into disarray,' he said.
