IFA campaign a disservice to many farmers

There needs to be reasoned debate on reform of the Common Agriculture Policy and everyone who has an interest in our countryside and villages has a stake in that argument.

But the campaign of propaganda, misinformation and bullying currently being conducted by the IFA does a disservice to taxpayers, country people, and the majority of farmers.

What the EU and our Government are trying to do is to introduce a fairer and more sustainable system of Single Farm Payments, one that gives a reasonable, yet modest, payment to all farmers and then lets them get on with the business of farming, to grow and intensify their business and find their reward in the marketplace.