It was a good week for . . .
Selling beef, with news that Korean buyers who deal with 120,000t of purchases are about to land in Ireland.Dairy farmers, who could be in line for a €100m windfall from the proposed Ornua restructuring. IFA politics, as the first presidential hopeful threw his hat into the ring. Another potential income stream for farmers, as biogas plan could see demand rise for grass and slurry.It was a bad week for . . .
Chances of the Mercosur deal being quashed, as Government sources have their say. Beef prices...again. The IFA has called for European Commissioner for Agriculture to take action against South American imports.Larry Goodman, as the Irish Farmers Journal investigative series into his business empire revealed more about his complicated web of companies.Sheep farmers in England, as police investigate a spate of incidents in which lambs were killed and butchered in their fields.