Crazy Nitrates Directive will put an end to commercial farming

THE impact of the Nitrates Directive on the farming community and the wider agri-industry infrastructure of Cork has been drastically underestimated by our politicians and the wider community.

The problems this illogical and unscientific set of regulations will cause are nowhere as acute as they are in west Cork.

Let me be as clear as the situation demands: the directive is a total disaster for west Cork farmers. It seems very likely that our pig and poultry producers will go the same way as Irish beet producers - and very quickly at that.