Sean Fitzpatrick, of the Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers' Association, said: "How can anyone expect our sheep farmers to maintain this when their income, which needs to support not only a business but a home, is getting significantly cut?"
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The Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs said Fintona farmer Henry McCarney had caused 'extensive' pollution to a tributary of the Eskragh Water from a farm effluent spill
Magherafelt farmer Brian McCartney had allowed pigs to roam freely with effluent 'ponding' at the site
Alice Bothwell, 20, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, is an agricultural student at Harper Adams University