Speaking on RTÉ's Countrywide programme this Saturday morning, senator and former UFU president Ian Marshall said that "farmers are realising more and more facts, more and more truth" about Brexit.
A dairy farmer from Co Armagh, Senator Marshall acknowledged that farmers were split on the issue at the time of the 2016 UK referendum on leaving the EU.
"The industry was completely divided. There was a lot of untruth, a lot of lies," he said. "It became very political from the start."
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Benefits
Since then, he has found that the discussion on the implementation of Brexit has failed to show benefits for Northern Ireland farmers.
"Three years into this discussion, I still haven't seen an economic argument of why the UK should leave," he said.
As the DUP spearheads opposition to the draft withdrawal agreement negotiated between the UK and the EU, Senator Marshall warned that "crashing out of Europe is horrendously devastating for everyone".
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Speaking on RTÉ's Countrywide programme this Saturday morning, senator and former UFU president Ian Marshall said that "farmers are realising more and more facts, more and more truth" about Brexit.
A dairy farmer from Co Armagh, Senator Marshall acknowledged that farmers were split on the issue at the time of the 2016 UK referendum on leaving the EU.
"The industry was completely divided. There was a lot of untruth, a lot of lies," he said. "It became very political from the start."
Benefits
Since then, he has found that the discussion on the implementation of Brexit has failed to show benefits for Northern Ireland farmers.
"Three years into this discussion, I still haven't seen an economic argument of why the UK should leave," he said.
As the DUP spearheads opposition to the draft withdrawal agreement negotiated between the UK and the EU, Senator Marshall warned that "crashing out of Europe is horrendously devastating for everyone".
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