Jim Power: Challenges are stacking up down on the farm

This is the year that the powerful farming lobby became considerably more fragmented, resulting in the very fractious picketing of meat factories; the intimidation of Bord Bia personnel at the annual ploughing championships; and the picketing of retail distribution centres.

Jim Power: Challenges are stacking up down on the farm

This is the year that the powerful farming lobby became considerably more fragmented, resulting in the very fractious picketing of meat factories; the intimidation of Bord Bia personnel at the annual ploughing championships; and the picketing of retail distribution centres.

While some of these were exploited for dubious political purposes, frustration and hopelessness are growing down on the farm.

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