FARMING POLL 2015 - DATA: Over half of hard-pressed households forced to work off-farm

Over half of hard-pressed househo lds forced to work off-farm

More than half of farm households are forced to work off the farm to help make ends meet, according to an Irish Examiner/ICMSA national opinion poll.

The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association said the finding highlighted the “quite disgraceful reality” of farmers struggling to make ends meet in what group president John Comer termed an “income crisis”.