The only way to make money from farming these days is to not actually farm the land. The prices farmers are earning are unsustainable and with rural Ireland being killed off to feed into Dublin another nail in the coffin.
There are very few jobs out west where farming used to be an option to provide for the family. Not anymore.
It's a crazy situation. People need food, farmers grow food. It should be that simple. Supply and demand, like any other business.
Of course, once government gets involved, mayhem ensues. If there is one law I would agree is needed it's the banning of below-cost selling. Selling food too cheaply lowers farm wages, destroys the land and does nothing for our respect for food or our healthy relationship with it.