Stephen Cadogan: Can agricultural pollution be solved by paying farmers to retire?

If farmers feel unwanted, they might welcome opportunities to get out of the business.

Over 400 pig farmers in the Netherlands have jumped at the chance to get out of the business, in return for a €455m payoff from the government scheme to reduce nitrogen pollution.

Could Ireland find €2.5 billion to pay the most intensive farmers to retire, because their businesses are deemed to be causing pollution?