The Beef Plan Movement is to undergo a restructuring seven months after the company was set up on 20 December 2018.

Meath farmers Eamon Corley and Hugh Doyle are switching from chair and vice chair respectively to new roles as acting joint chairs until elections, which are slated for early spring, are held. These elections will be held after Beef Plan Movement files its first set of accounts in November.

Corley will head up the purchasing groups, which it says have 3,500 active farmers. Doyle will co-ordinate the group’s national and county committees, which he said is formed from its membership of 20,000.

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Doyle said the restructuring was as a result of the workload. His side of the group will be focusing on five or six elements of the original 86-point plan, which he said was formed from various farmers’ “dreams”.

Changes to anti-competitive practices will be the main priority for Doyle.