Farmers support compromise on backstop

The Government should compromise on the backstop to avoid a hard Brexit, with nine out of 10 farmers concerned about the impact of the UK’s departure without a deal.

This year’s Irish Examiner/ICMSA opinion poll of farmers and farm families found that just under half (47%) of farmers felt the Government needed to make some kind of concession to break the impasse, with governments putting plans in place for a no-deal.