There’s more to Irish farming than milk

As I wrote this column last Sunday night, I did not yet know the answer to question of whether the share holders of Glanbia have or have not voted in favour of the first part of the proposed “joint venture” by the time you are reading this.

So, what you read here is not coloured in any way by the outcome of the first vote.

While I am a shareholder, I am not a milk producer, and although some had suggested that “dry share holders” such as myself should have been excluded from the vote on the basis that what was being voted on effected only milk producers I viewed that argument as bizarre.