Farming Poll 2016: Weather added to farmer gloom since poll carried out

The agriculture industry will give its verdict later this week on how the 2016 National Ploughing Championships went.

A vital factor in these judgements will be how upbeat farmers at the event were, and how much they spend on new machinery and services which they discover at Tullamore.

The farmers are more subdued this year, according to the Irish Examiner ICMSA opinion poll carried out over two weeks, starting in mid-August.