Income set to dominate the conversation at the National Ploughing Championships

This week will see tens of thousands of farm families attend the National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore — an event that celebrates rural Ireland and demonstrates just how important agriculture is to the social and economic fabric of rural communities.

A vibrant rural Ireland is dependent on a strong agriculture sector in each county, providing employment and generating output not just in farming, but in the thousands of regionally-based jobs dependent on and linked to the sector. The Government must keep that to the fore in framing next month’s Budget.

Budget 2017