IFA debates in every county before votes are cast.

THE country’s two main farming bodies, the Irish Farmers Association and the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, will elect new leaders today.

NO modern political movement should be without a Mr Clean, and the 2005 IFA election has seen the emergence of James Reynolds to claim that title.

THE next president of the 85,000 member Irish Farmers Association will be chosen from three leading members, who have been nominated to contest the election.