The Irish Farmers Journal Save Our Sucklers (SOS) campaign continues to go from strength to strength, with almost 10,000 signatures received in the first week.

Beef editor Adam Woods, spoke to presenter Ivan Yates on Newstalk to convey the vital importance of the suckler industry to rural Ireland.

Listen to "SOS on Newstalk" on Spreaker.

“This is about giving a voice to rural Ireland, It’s about saying to those people and the powers that be that rural Ireland is not happy with the way things are going in terms of we’ll say of rural decline and employment," Woods said.

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