The Beef Plan Movement is to undergo a restructuring seven months after the company was set up on 20 December 2018.
Meath farmers Eamon Corley and Hugh Doyle are switching from chair and vice chair respectively to new roles as acting joint chairs until elections, which are slated for early spring, are held. These elections will be held after Beef Plan Movement files its first set of accounts in November.
Corley will head up the purchasing groups, which it says have 3,500 active farmers. Doyle will co-ordinate the group’s national and county committees, which he said is formed from its membership of 20,000.
Doyle said the restructuring was as a result of the workload. His side of the group will be focusing on five or six elements of the original 86-point plan, which he said was formed from various farmers’ “dreams”.
Changes to anti-competitive practices will be the main priority for Doyle.
The Dealer would like to offer his congratulations to Longford native Fran McNulty,
who will be slipping into the wellies of agriculture and consumer affairs correspondent of RTÉ.
The Prime Time reporter has also presented some of RTÉ’s flagship radio programmes, including Morning Ireland, This Week and News at One.
Before joining RTÉ, he cut his teeth at Shannonside Northern Sound Radio, as a current affairs presenter and agriculture editor.
RTÉ has yet to announce who will take up other vacant correspondent roles, so who knows, maybe George Lee, whose five-year agriculture term has ended, won’t be too far away.
RTÉ Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Correspondent Fran McNulty.
Jerry Long has been elected president of the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society, succeeding Michael Spellman. From The Ragg, Co Tipperary, he is a dairy farmer and supplies Drombane Co-op. He has been chair of the ICOS Dairy Committee since 2015. Meanwhile, Pat Murphy, general manager of the dairy division at Kerry Group, has been nominated to the Bord Bia board.Murphy was appointed on 28 May by Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed and will serve a three-year term on the board. Earlier in May, Minister Creed reappointed Pat McCormack of the ICMSA, also for a three-year term.
INHFA president Colm O’Donnell told last week’s AGM that dairy heifers wouldn’t survive in the place of suckler cows on certain land types, such as hills and Natura land.
“If those [suckler] cows go, they can’t be replaced,” he said.
“You can have a five-star heifer coming from a dairy herd and if you put 25 stars on that heifer, she wouldn’t survive on that type of land. It’s as simple as that. In fact, if you put all the stars on the Milky Way on her, that cow wouldn’t survive.
“It’s to illustrate that these beef-bred cattle are what our industry was built on and if they go, they cannot be replaced,” he said.
O’Donnell will shortly take up a second two-year term as the head of the INHFA.
The green fields of Japan
The green fields of Ireland weren’t the only fields talked about on this week’s Bord Bia trade mission to Japan, with rugby fields referenced at every opportunity.
The experts reckon the rugby world cup will be one of the best chances Ireland will ever get to establish our identity in Japan. Regardless of the outcome, Ireland playing Japan on 28 September is seen as a major plus for Irish relations.
Minister Michael Creed presented his Japanese counterpart Takamori Yoshikawa with an Irish rugby jersey when they signed an agreement on Irish sheepmeat access to Japan.
Dutch and Danes want a slice of Brexit aid money
The Dutch and Danes are trying to follow Ireland’s lead in getting €50m out of Brussels as Brexit compensation money, I see. Leaders of their farm organisations want Commissioner Phil Hogan to outline how other EU member states can qualify for a relief package. In a letter to Commissioner Hogan they said that “farmers in other member states have also suffered significant losses due to market uncertainties and a falling exchange rate for the pound”.
Martin Merrild is the president of the Danish Agriculture Council and Marc Calon is the Dutch LTO chair.
Martin Merrild, president of the Danish Agriculture Council, with Maria Reumert Gjerding, president of The Danish Society for Nature Conservation
Does this lamb look like a calf?
At a farmers’ meeting on the €100m Brexit beef package this week, IFA livestock chair Angus Woods reeled off the requests he had received for the funds.
“I’ve had phone calls telling me that Friesian and Jersey calves should be topped up,” he said.
Then when the bottom fell off lamb prices in the past few weeks, he even got a few hopeful messages from sheep farmers.
That’s stretching the definition of “beef” a bit far.
Pig farmer lands ambassador role
Is see pig farmer Shane McAuliffe has been chosen as a European Union pig ambassador.
The role was awarded after the Kerryman won the EU PiG Grand Prix this year.
Some readers might remember McAuliffe farms from their star appearance on RTÉ’s Big Week on the Farm.
Shane has been at pains to highlight the threat of African Swine Fever and we’re sure he’s as happy as a pig in the expletive with his new role.
The Beef Plan Movement is to undergo a restructuring seven months after the company was set up on 20 December 2018.
Meath farmers Eamon Corley and Hugh Doyle are switching from chair and vice chair respectively to new roles as acting joint chairs until elections, which are slated for early spring, are held. These elections will be held after Beef Plan Movement files its first set of accounts in November.
Corley will head up the purchasing groups, which it says have 3,500 active farmers. Doyle will co-ordinate the group’s national and county committees, which he said is formed from its membership of 20,000.
Doyle said the restructuring was as a result of the workload. His side of the group will be focusing on five or six elements of the original 86-point plan, which he said was formed from various farmers’ “dreams”.
Changes to anti-competitive practices will be the main priority for Doyle.
The Dealer would like to offer his congratulations to Longford native Fran McNulty,
who will be slipping into the wellies of agriculture and consumer affairs correspondent of RTÉ.
The Prime Time reporter has also presented some of RTÉ’s flagship radio programmes, including Morning Ireland, This Week and News at One.
Before joining RTÉ, he cut his teeth at Shannonside Northern Sound Radio, as a current affairs presenter and agriculture editor.
RTÉ has yet to announce who will take up other vacant correspondent roles, so who knows, maybe George Lee, whose five-year agriculture term has ended, won’t be too far away.
RTÉ Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Correspondent Fran McNulty.
Jerry Long has been elected president of the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society, succeeding Michael Spellman. From The Ragg, Co Tipperary, he is a dairy farmer and supplies Drombane Co-op. He has been chair of the ICOS Dairy Committee since 2015. Meanwhile, Pat Murphy, general manager of the dairy division at Kerry Group, has been nominated to the Bord Bia board.Murphy was appointed on 28 May by Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed and will serve a three-year term on the board. Earlier in May, Minister Creed reappointed Pat McCormack of the ICMSA, also for a three-year term.
INHFA president Colm O’Donnell told last week’s AGM that dairy heifers wouldn’t survive in the place of suckler cows on certain land types, such as hills and Natura land.
“If those [suckler] cows go, they can’t be replaced,” he said.
“You can have a five-star heifer coming from a dairy herd and if you put 25 stars on that heifer, she wouldn’t survive on that type of land. It’s as simple as that. In fact, if you put all the stars on the Milky Way on her, that cow wouldn’t survive.
“It’s to illustrate that these beef-bred cattle are what our industry was built on and if they go, they cannot be replaced,” he said.
O’Donnell will shortly take up a second two-year term as the head of the INHFA.
The green fields of Japan
The green fields of Ireland weren’t the only fields talked about on this week’s Bord Bia trade mission to Japan, with rugby fields referenced at every opportunity.
The experts reckon the rugby world cup will be one of the best chances Ireland will ever get to establish our identity in Japan. Regardless of the outcome, Ireland playing Japan on 28 September is seen as a major plus for Irish relations.
Minister Michael Creed presented his Japanese counterpart Takamori Yoshikawa with an Irish rugby jersey when they signed an agreement on Irish sheepmeat access to Japan.
Dutch and Danes want a slice of Brexit aid money
The Dutch and Danes are trying to follow Ireland’s lead in getting €50m out of Brussels as Brexit compensation money, I see. Leaders of their farm organisations want Commissioner Phil Hogan to outline how other EU member states can qualify for a relief package. In a letter to Commissioner Hogan they said that “farmers in other member states have also suffered significant losses due to market uncertainties and a falling exchange rate for the pound”.
Martin Merrild is the president of the Danish Agriculture Council and Marc Calon is the Dutch LTO chair.
Martin Merrild, president of the Danish Agriculture Council, with Maria Reumert Gjerding, president of The Danish Society for Nature Conservation
Does this lamb look like a calf?
At a farmers’ meeting on the €100m Brexit beef package this week, IFA livestock chair Angus Woods reeled off the requests he had received for the funds.
“I’ve had phone calls telling me that Friesian and Jersey calves should be topped up,” he said.
Then when the bottom fell off lamb prices in the past few weeks, he even got a few hopeful messages from sheep farmers.
That’s stretching the definition of “beef” a bit far.
Pig farmer lands ambassador role
Is see pig farmer Shane McAuliffe has been chosen as a European Union pig ambassador.
The role was awarded after the Kerryman won the EU PiG Grand Prix this year.
Some readers might remember McAuliffe farms from their star appearance on RTÉ’s Big Week on the Farm.
Shane has been at pains to highlight the threat of African Swine Fever and we’re sure he’s as happy as a pig in the expletive with his new role.
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