Brexit is still biggest cloud on the horizon for farmers

Brexit presents the biggest single challenge that the Irish Agri-food sector has faced in decades.

This day last week at the AGM of the ICMSA and in the course of a masterful analysis of the situation, former Taoiseach and former EU Ambassador to the US, John Bruton, likened the possible negative fallout to the ruin inflicted on our farming sector during the Economic War with Britain in the 1930s.

But we have to keep reminding ourselves that we’re not entirely bystanders in this process: we have a voice and we should be articulating our national interest right now — early and often.