CHARLIE McCONALOGUE’S pitch for farmers to produce more grain sounds, ironically, like a Russian five-year plan from the Soviet era. But for the government over the past decade, the dominant narrative about Irish agriculture has been shaped by the agri-industrial giants and enthusiastically endorsed by farm organisations. This storyline is that break-neck expansion of the… Read more »
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