A new generation of farmers are insisting on pre-nuptial agreements before swapping their marriage vows to ensure their inheritance isn’t carved up in a divorce.

LEADERSHIP distinction awards were presented to 54 Macra members during the Bank of Ireland-sponsored county officer training.

BEEF and tillage farmer Alan Jagoe from Carrigaline, Co Cork, has been declared the 33rd Macra na Feirme national president.