Sean Finan: Brexit will be biggest ever challenge for Irish farming

Young Irish farmers are feeling great disappointment and fear following the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Macra na Feirme raised our concerns on the subject at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, which was convened to discuss Brexit’s potential implications.

The consequences and fallout from Brexit are, in my view, the biggest challenge our industry will face in our generation. In the past we have had BSE, Foot and Mouth and others crises but this is bigger than all of those together.