102 Mr. Gogarty asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether a premium of €100 per hectare is necessary to encourage farmers to produce oilseed rape following a statement by one farmer that he would require 700 acres to grow enough of the crop to earn a wage that would be equivalent to that of a livestock farmer, who in 2005 was reported to have needed 440 cattle on 300 acres of land to earn an average industrial wage. [18757/06]

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102 Mr. Gogarty asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether a premium of €100 per hectare is necessary to encourage farmers to produce oilseed rape following a statement by one farmer that he would require 700 acres to grow enough of the crop to earn a wage that would be equivalent to that of a livestock farmer, who in 2005 was reported to have needed 440 cattle on 300 acres of land to earn an average industrial wage. [18757/06]

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