Beef
UK beef production is expected to decrease by 5% in 2025 which could boost Irish beef exports to the market according to latest research.
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Sourcing calves that are good value for money is essential if beef farmers are buying calves bred from dairy herds for beef...
Brazil is expected to reach record levels of beef production in 2024, according to a new report...
Ireland has been identified in a new global report as one of the EU countries where beef production has fallen in 2023.
Consumer demand for beef continues to be under pressure because food price inflation remains high...
Beef News
Latin American and Caribbean countries, especially big food producers, will join forces to defend the region's livestock production at a UN food summit
The outlook for the Irish beef price in 2017 is far from positive with a number of factors set to combine to see Irish prices decline.
The number of cattle slaughtered at Department of Agriculture approved plants has dropped for the second consecutive week.
Dairy born steers accounted for 55% of the national steer kill in 2015, according to Teagasc's Robert Prendiville.
Teagasc is predicting a further decline in suckler cow numbers between now and 2025, with more farmers switching to calf rearing.
The volume of beef produced in Europe is expected to jump by 2% in 2016, a recent report published by the European Commission shows.
It would be foolhardy in the extreme to curb the production of beef in a country where we produce in an extensive grass-based system, according to Cormac Healy of MII.
Global beef production levels in 2016 are to rise by 1% from 2015, the latest forecast from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) suggests.
