Beef
The uplift in factory beef prices in recent weeks is filtering down into the prices being paid by farmers and the sale of calves is growing
Dairy News
The Irish Beef and Lamb Association has written to the Minister Charlie McConalogue, seeking assurances about calf welfare.
Dairy
In the past week to 10 days, the majority of livestock marts hosting weekly calf sales have noticed the calf trade cooling slightly.
Morrisons is to allow all bull calves from its dairy suppliers into its beef supply chain, to prevent them being killed at a very young age.
The price being paid for calves at present has been described as "totally unacceptable" and live shippers have been called on to ‘step up’.
Jack Hahessy Madigan, a graduate of Galway-Mayo Institue of Technology, spotted an opportunity to begin rose veal production while studying.
A consignment of 277 Holstein Friesian bull calves left the Wicklow Cattle Company's headquarters in Arklow, Co. Wicklow.
