Minister Michelle O'Neill

Irish factory prices fall behind export benchmark

After outperforming the benchmark price for several months, Irish factory prices now lag behind what is being paid to farmers in our main export markets.

NEWS 20 March 2026

Irish factory prices fall behind export benchmark

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Brexit impact begins to bite Irish beef exports

Brexit impact begins to bite Irish beef exports

NEWS 19 March 2026

Farmers better served by Bord Bia out of the news

Farmers better served by Bord Bia out of the news

NEWS 15 March 2026

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

NEWS 13 March 2026

Market digest - stories from around the world

Market digest - stories from around the world

Market digest - stories from around the world

WORLD 11 March 2026

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Break up of US meat-processing industry proposed

Break up of US meat-processing industry proposed

Democrats in the US senate want to break up the meat-processing structure, which is dominated by large players, but their logic is challenged by the industry.

NEWS 4 March 2026

Growth in southern hemisphere exports

Growth in southern hemisphere exports

Beef volumes exported in February increase in Brazil and Australia compared with a year ago, but sheep meat down.

NEWS 4 March 2026

Beef tribunal takes centre stage in part two of Goodman series

Beef tribunal takes centre stage in part two of Goodman series

Part two of Goodman: too big to fail aired last night exploring how the activities of the business were investigated at the time and what happened next.

NEWS 4 March 2026

Opinion: beef industry has come a long way

Opinion: beef industry has come a long way

Ireland in the 1980s has been described as a different country and the same could be said about the beef industry.

NEWS 4 March 2026

First decline in China’s annual beef imports

First decline in China’s annual beef imports

The drop in volume is small, but it marks a turning point in the upward trend of China's apparent insatiable appetite for beef imports.

NEWS 4 March 2026

Market Digest: stories from around the world

Market Digest: stories from around the world

Brief news snippets from: Brazil, Nigeria, New Zealand and Netherlands.

WORLD 4 March 2026

Mercosur deal will operate provisionally

Mercosur deal will operate provisionally

European Commission announces that the Mercosur trade deal will operate provisionally pending its review by the European Court of Justice and ahead of approval by the European Parliament.

NEWS 4 March 2026

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Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

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