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.