Irish lessons at Oxford

IRISH speakers created much impact at the prestigious recent Oxford Farming Conference.

In particular, farmer Jim McCarthy’s wide-ranging presentation shed much light on the topic of global agriculture — a vitally important topic, but obscured in Europe by constant political bickering over the Common Agriculture Policy.

McCarthy speaks from both sides of the fence, admitting that he owes his success very much to EU farm subsidies, but had to move to the US and Argentina to become a large-scale global farmer.