Ciaran Moran: Many farms are more reliant on subsidies today than they were 20 years ago — good or bad thing?

Niall Matthews, chairperson of Lakeland Dairies, speaks at the Lakeland Dairies Farming for a Better Future: Protecting Our Waters event in Co Longford. Photo: Damien Eagers

Ciaran Moran

You know there must be an election campaign on when the politicians start turning up at farm walks.

This was certainly the case at a Lakeland Dairies-organised farm walk in Longford last week.