MACRA na Feirme’s strength is its members, according to its newly elected president, Michael Gowing, a 30-year-old dairy and beef farmer from Portlaoise.

THE race is on to find the successor to Catherine Buckley as national president of Macra na Feirme.

THE results of the Leinster and Munster Macra na Feirme vice-presidential elections will be announced at the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin on Tuesday.