Farming special - Day 3: 

The 2014 Irish Examiner ICMSA Farming Survey illustrates how useful  it can be for a farmer to earn some income away from the land.

Those who have some off-farm earnings have a different outlook.

To a major extent, these “part-time” farmers are much more independent of the swings and roundabouts in far and food markets which can leave them on with seesawing incomes, or financial losses in some years.