Irish Beef finishers are playing hardball with factory buyers this week as they push for a significant hike in cattle prices following the EU Commission's decision to restrict Brazilian beef imports.
Factories have battled to keep a lid on quotes but buyers for the processing plants admitted that they were struggling to source supplies and [...]
The importing of beef into Northern Ireland has risen from 49.6 tonnes for 2006 to 99.9 tonnes for the first six months of this year. This means a potential increase of over 400% by the end of the year.
Statistics show that throughout the entire United Kingdom, the main imports of beef came from the Republic [...]
This extravagant wastefulness of oil has brought us to something approaching a crunch point. Since the American invasion of Iraq, oil prices have soared, hovering around the $100 a barrel level instead of the previous $30 benchmark. Everything that relied on cheap oil has now begun to feel the pinch. The competition for resources has [...]
Government targets to reduce emissions in Ireland will be hard to achieve without damaging businesses in the country, an industry expert has claimed.
In an interview with the Irish Independent, Richard Tol, a researcher with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), explained that current Government targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3% a year [...]
EU Will Introduce Restrictions on Brazilian Beef
By Danielle Rossingh
The European Union plans to restrict Brazilian beef imports from next month because of “serious and repeated'' failings in the animal health system of the world's biggest beef exporter.
From Jan. 31, the 27-nation bloc will only allow Brazilian beef within its borders that comes from “an approved [...]
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan, has welcomed the decision by the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa, Lulama Xingwana, to lift the ban on the importation of Irish beef, which has been in place since 2001. The market is being re-opened under the conditions recommended [...]
