Stephen Cadogan: Even milk producers remain optimistic about their farming

Give a farmer a fine day to get the work done, and he or she is content.

There’s cause in the 2015 Irish Examiner ICMSA farming survey results to support that simple theory.

Even 81% of dairy farmers in the survey said they remain optimistic about their chosen farm enterprise — despite enduring a milk price slump from as high as 40c to as low as 26c per litre since the summer of 2014.