FARMING POLL 2015: Unique approach to take the pulse of the Irish farmer

There has been a relative dearth of published data on farmers and farming attitudes over recent years, and the introduction of a regular index of farming opinion by the Irish Examiner has been a welcome and worthwhile development, says Larry Ryan of Behaviour & Attitudes.

2015 Irish Examiner/ICMSA survey

As someone who has worked in market research for 25 years, I have seen the size of the farming community decline from more than 20%, to its current level of roughly 7% of the Irish population.