The Beef Plan movement took to the streets of Dublin, with significant numbers of support from both members and politicians, last week. The Beef Plan movement took to the streets of Dublin, with significant numbers of support from both members and politicians, last week. Their protest over the Mercosur trade agreement stemmed from months of poor beef prices and came as the Minister was finalising his plans to distribute the €100m Brexit Beef Fund. It has been left it up to individual farmers to apply for the scheme, but the fund is clearly targeted at suckler farmers and finishers. But, whether the Minister has done enough to appease beef farmers remains to be seen.

Source: Irish Independent July 17, 2019 05:03 UTC