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Charlie McConalogue has said “a lot more work” can be done to improve transparency in the beef sector after last week’s trade mission to Japan put the spotlight on farmer returns from the industry’s strong offal exports.

Irish beef has its first foothold in the Japanese premium market, with Longford-based John Stone agreeing to supply luxury department store Isetan – Japan’s equivalent of Brown Thomas.

Bord Bia has launched the Asian leg of two EU co-funded campaigns promoting European beef, lamb and dairy from Ireland across seven Asian markets.

Factory quotes were unchanged yesterday, with lambs still on a high of Kildare Chilling’s €6.40+10c/kg quality assurance and cull ewes on €3.40/kg, plus in Kildare’s case an extra 10c/kg QA.

Bord Bia has announced that Jim O'Toole has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Those of you who read my articles regularly will know I’ve a liking for classic films and rock music. Yesterday morning, as the factory quotes came in, the 1979 Nick Lowe song Cracking Up came into my head. It’s a song about the world and its stresses, stating at one…

The EU's Green Deal targets for organic farming are ambitious but achievable, according to the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski.

Eurovision’s Brooke Scullion was explaining how she had discovered an aptitude for weeding in her aunt’s garden during lockdown; well-known architect Hugh Wallace revealed plans to grow red and white dahlias in memory of his late father; and RTÉ’s Marty Morrissey was gazing intently into a shrub in one of…

Data from Bord Bia shows that the total sheep kill for 2022 to the April 9 is running 15pc ahead of the corresponding period for 2021 at 729,741 against 636,808 last year.

With data from the Department of Agriculture showing factory slaughterings running 11pc ahead of this time last year at 475,114, there’s questions whether the run of exceptionally strong weekly kills can be maintained.

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