The farm organisations believe that only the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, can salvage the farming pillar of the partnership agreement, following the break-up of the talks with the farmers late on Saturday.
The main farming organisations believe they have been ignored in the process and there is no proper understanding of their difficulties.
Yesterday, the Tánaiste, Ms Harney, said she believed farmers had more to gain from partnership than going it alone in these difficult times.
She told RTÉ radio that neither she, Mr Ahern nor the Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, had any plans to intervene at this stage but did not rule out the possibility at some later stage. "Intervention may not be necessary at this stage," she said.
In a statement issued last night the president of the Irish Farmers' Association, Mr John Dillon, said farmers had been "deliberately pushed out" of the process.
The agreement could only be salvaged, he said, by agreement to resource agriculture. The importance of the sector had not been acknowledged in the commitment of resources to it.
The farming lobby had, in his opinion, been deliberately excluded.
Mr Dillon, whose organisation represents 85,000 farmers, said the last partnership agreement had been broken even as the farmers were talking about a new agreement.
Since the current talks began, farmers had been hit with €200 million in additional charges and costs through increased disease levies and the scrapping of the roll-over tax relief on compulsory purchase payments for lands for road building.
Mr Dillon said that in discussions with the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Walsh, on the concerns facing the farming community, Mr Walsh had "stonewalled" on the issues involved.
"The reality is that this is an agreement on a €2 billion public sector pay bill," he said.
"It is up to the Government to decide if anything can be salvaged for a genuine partnership."
The president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association, Mr Pat O'Rourke, said as far as he was concerned the talks were going nowhere on Saturday night and all avenues had been exhausted.
"The farming community was offered little or nothing in the documents which were given to us and there was no improvement on what we had started negotiating on," he said.
"There was general agreement on the farming side that only the Taoiseach can get this process going again because we have become bogged down."
The talks, he said, had not addressed any of the demands he had made on behalf of his members who were facing additional costs because of the implementation of the nitrates directive, increased animal disease levies and additional payments for BSE controls.
"I don't think the Government is taking the farming lobby seriously and don't seem to realise just how serious the difficulties we face really are," he said.
Macra na Feirme, the young farmers' organisation, also expressed disappointment at the outcome of the talks and it will hold a special meeting in Dublin on Tuesday to discuss the situation.
The Irish Farmers' Association will also hold a special national council meeting at a date to be decided where Mr Dillon will report on the lack of progress to date.