Farming and food business interests advised to revamp

ALL farming and food business operations must be adjusted to reap maximum benefit from the new agricultural trading environment, a conference in Wicklow was told yesterday.

Animal and Plant Health Association (APHA) director Declan O’Brien predicted a period of relative stability in agriculture in the EU following reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

There is much to be positive about for the future of Irish agriculture, he told the APHA and Animal Health Distributors conference.