Bumper returns make farming 'star of economy'
The covert's out -- agriculture is flying. Farmers had been doing their invariable best to brush off suggestions that they were experiencing bumper returns for the last while. But they knew the spirited was finally up when they listened to President Mary McAleese express the nation from the Ploughing Championships that farming "is the pre-eminent of the Irish economy".
While collapsed property prices be prolonged to be the millstone around the neck of the wider economy, farmland prices are in actuality turning a corner. Even NAMA's boss Brendan McDonagh admitted that he was relying on a light-hearted farm sector to hoover up thousands of acres of come which represents 40pc of the state agency's loanbook.
Several golf courses around the power are also expected to be re-absorbed into the food chain over the coming months as negotiations are finalised with close by farmers keen to put the redundant fairways back into dynamic use.
The general public will see the sight of pristine greens disappearing unceremoniously under the hurtle as a further sign of how far we've fallen. But farmers will look on the events as being only fitting. They always considered it a terrible shame that the country's prime farmland was being increasingly consigned to material and leisure-time pursuits.
Bumper returns arrange farming 'star of economy'Several golf courses around the outback are also expected to be re-absorbed into the food chain over the coming months as negotiations are finalised with townswoman farmers keen to put the redundant fairways back into generative use. and more »