At the ICMSA a.g.m. in Limerick on Wednesday the future of dairy farming was being discussed. Prof Seamus Sheehy was asked what future he saw for the farmer with a 10 to 20,000-gallon milk quota. Not much, he said, the future was bleak indeed but he would accept suggestions.
Then a voice piped up: "He could marry a teacher". When the laughing subsided the professor said: "I would not limit myself to that. He could marry a teacher, or a nurse or even an aromatherapist. Does the future of the small farm rest in the hands of Mna na hEireann?
