Good week for…

  • Beef producers as the effect of global demand helps to drive up Irish prices and Chinese vets are on their way to approve Irish meat plants.
  • More than 113,000 farmers who successfully applied for their Basic Payment Scheme.
  • Dairy farmers, as a shortage of butter and a GDT rise point to potential milk price increases.
  • Glanbia Co-op, whose shareholders voted yes to creating Glanbia Ireland.
  • Farmers who received a €1,000/ha top-up payment from computer giant Microsoft for planting trees.
  • Bad week for…