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Mark, who wears his second cap on the IFA’s grain committee, says that a fair proportion of Irish tillage farmers are now considering their position and looking at the attractions of changing their main farming enterprises.

However, Mark (44), who took over running the farm in 1996 after completing his Green Cert with Teagasc in Enniscorthy, is in for the long haul with tillage.

He and his wife Clare have a young family — Aoife (14), James (12), Noel (10) and John (8) — and Mark is not for turning on tillage and