Agriculture must ‘fight its corner based on science’

MEP Billy Kelleher said that many people are now further removed from farming than they once were in Ireland.

"They want to make sure the food they’re selling on their shelves is sustainable from an environmental perspective."

Agriculture must “fight its own corner” based on science, and “not any longer just on emotional attachment”, MEP Billy Kelleher has said.

Speaking at the National Dairy Show, Mr Kelleher said that going forward, agricultural policies “will always be put through the environmental prism first”.