Headage and sheep changes coming

Significant changes in the new acreage-based Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and in supports for sheep farmers are on the way, the Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh has predicted.

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Beef Scare and prices rising

Northern Ireland beef processing factories are facing a scarcity of finished cattle. Prices quoted for steers and heifers for slaughter early this week were up by 4 pence/kg from those of seven days ago.

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The cattle cull and the SRM fiasco

THE new Purchase for Destruction Scheme will never be capable of absorbing the much publicised figure of 20,000 cattle a week plus, because of the shortage of specified risk material (SRM) processing and storage capacity in the country, it can be revealed this week.