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Beef price increases ‘just about keeping pace’ with UK boosts

November 23, 2020

Christmas demand continues to push beef prices, with increases “just about keeping pace” with price lifts in the UK, according to the Irish…

November 2, 2020

Meat factories have been criticised by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) for the level of price cuts on cow prices over the past…

July 22, 2020

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Dara Calleary is “reluctant to intervene” in the beef market – but has highlighted the need…

June 25, 2020

Farmers who are selling finished cattle “should demand higher beef prices as all the market factors show the factories can pay more”, according…

May 14, 2020

The chairman of the Beef Market Taskforce, Michael Dowling, has written to taskforce members to provide an update as to the current state…

April 23, 2020

There is a “real imbalance in the carcass” at present in terms of supply and demand of beef in the meat industry, according…

September 17, 2019

Damage is being caused to the Irish fresh meat market and customers have gone elsewhere, while contracts have been lost, according to Meat Industry…

January 22, 2016

Irish beef processors, north and south of the border, need to find new markets outside the EU, according to the Livestock and Meat Commission Chief…

September 19, 2015

It’s over 12 months on since the beginning of last year’s beef ‘crisis’ and beef prices are back down around the €4/kg mark. Yet,…

August 21, 2015

The opening of the US and Chinese beef markets must be turned into real exports and results, the IFA President Eddie Downey has…