IRELAND’S BEEF PLAN TO BOOST PRODUCER AUTONOMY IS FAST ATTRACTING SUPPORTERS
February 1st, 2019
Beef Plan - a movement put together by Irish suckler and beef farmers to fetch them better prices and more autonomy - is gaining momentum, the group’s spokesperson has told GlobalMeatNews.
The project that kicked off last September (2018), outside the structures of traditional farming organisation, and projected to last until 2025, is all about “getting control back to farmers” from the big beef buyers, empowering them to make good business decisions, said Beef Plan spokesperson Eamon Corley. He said: “As many as 17,000 farmers signed up after a series ...
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