Good week for…

  • Farmers with top-quality weanlings, who are getting €360/hd more for their animals compared to those with plainer, dairy-bred stock.
  • Boosting Ireland’s export potential to China, with Chinese officials to tour eight beef factories and a dairy processor.
  • Dairy farmers, as milk price continues to rise and the national Johne’s Disease control programme gets the green light to begin.
  • Irish ploughmen in Europe, as Jer Coakley retains his European title and is joined on the podium by two other Irish men.
  • Demand for lamb, as the growing Muslim populations of Europe become increasingly important for Irish sheep farmers.
  • Bad week for…