There is currently an Income Crisis in Northern Ireland's agricultural industry, brought about by a substantial increase in production costs at a time when net profits have been substantially reduced.

The Secretary of State for Scotland has made a great headline announcement, saying that arable payments will be available to help the Current Income Crisis, but such are the bureaucracy and failings in the system that those payments are not, in large measure, getting in time to the people whom they need to hit.

They began by considering what had caused the increasing use of food banks and they concluded that it was due to an Acute Income Crisis.

They began by considering what had caused the increasing use of food banks and they concluded that it was due to an acute Income Crisis.

Under Labour's new proposals they will find themselves having an Income Crisis that they would not find under the Government's current legislation.