MEP to host conference for farmers

ON Friday 4 th of May, MEP Luke Ming Flanagan will be hosting an important conference in the Bush Hotel Carrick On Shannon. The conference titled “Generating a return on High Nature Value (HNV) land” will examine all potential uses and options open to farmers to maximize the return from their land. This is an important event in advance of CAP reform 2020 on which discussions are already under way in Brussels.

Ming says: “The conference aims to encourage farmers to look at their land in a new light. We must move away from the notion instilled in us from an early age that the only worthwhile land is an acre of prime pastureland or an acre of tillage land. Every acre of land has its vital role to play in overarching goals of food production.”