Food for thought — minister for food at the Cabinet table

WITH so much momentum still driving the economy, it is easy to lose sight of the huge transition taking place in Irish agriculture.

It is significant also that the ending of the sugar beet regime in Ireland went virtually unnoticed by the wider media.

In the context of Irish agriculture the ending of the sugar beet regime, that denies 3,700 farmers their main income source, would have resulted in riots in the capital, had it happened 10 or fifteen years ago.