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A so-called voluntary approach that forces change through regulation and negative subsidies must not be allowed absolve Government from the need to provide adequate funding support
Growers all over the country have geared up with cultivators and additional machine capacity to do what was necessary and now we learn that much of this capacity may not be needed.
For many farmers, the reality of what was taking place on Tullamore Farm and indeed on many farms across the country was a far cry from how their sector has been positioned within the climate debate.
Focusing the debate on food production rather than agriculture would also expose the lack of logic in reducing livestock-based food production capacity in Ireland.
Promises of money from the EU for managing soil carbon stocks once EU regulation is enacted in a number of years is hard to bank when you have family commitments and loans to meet.
Allowing a legally binding target to be set for the agricultural sector that can only be achieved by dramatically reducing both farm productivity and profitability would be reckless.