This afternoon.
Dunsany, County Meath.
Irish Farmers Association President Joe Healy (third right) with colleagues and protesters as they burn a bail of hay outside the European Commission – Food and Veterinary Office (FVO). over the Mercosur deal.
Update:
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burning a bale of hay ?
clearly too high concept for me
Obviously, if you can’t distinguish between hay and straw.
Relax lads. Mercosur allows for 99,000 tonnes of beef to be imported to the EU. That will just about replace the beef that the UK won’t be able to export to the rest of the EU should they choose to leave without a deal.
It’s an attack on rural Ireland etc
Except half of our beef goes to the UK
Yeah, just like the EU was an economic community….
It was once …
Such halcyon days.
Doing their bit for climate change.
that’s a lot of feijoada.
ill reiterate an earlier point i made on this topic; fupp the farmers.
Ireland needs to be massively reducing the size of the beef industry anyway for environmental reasons. If Brexit and the MERCOSUR deal help make this happen sooner rather than later its a great thing.
You do know that the beef industry environment lie has been exposed. Green party bullpoo
Any arrests?
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Didn’t think so.
Cops are still on a steak out
:)
I can understand “No beef imports from Brazil” but “No EU beef imports”?
Did anyone tell the farmers about the common market, the european economic community and the european union?
What is laughable is, Irish beef farmers are surviving on a pittance whilst the glorified knackeryman Larry Goodman’s wealth quadrupled to €2.4bn last year. If the IFA was doing its job, there would be a better split between farmer/processor.
[Oh, and try burning a bale of hay outside Leinster House next time you’re protesting and see how far you’ll get, and it won’t be a smilining Garda with a fire extinguisher that sticks the cuffs on you]
Sadly, the economics of beef production don’t add up – with the exception of the bould Larry.
In 2017, the average farm income on cattle reading farms was just €12,529. According to Teagasc. Worse still, costs of production exceed market prices with a reliance on EU direct payments critical to viability. Expect these to diminish quickly as farm production becomes linked to climate change/sustainability imperatives.
But the bould Larry already knows this
And has already diversified
And is well established as serious investor in;
Yep
Cannabis
The canny Larry recently made a 35% profit on his INM investment. That’s something Dinny could only dream of.
That 12k will be part of the farmers income , really annoying when people pick a random number an push it as fact. When you add up subsidies ,sale of stock, part-time work and other income sources, Half an hour a day will be all the time they spend on the beasts, plenty of time to do other work.
Take it up with Teagasc.
Regardless, beef is being sold below the cost of production.
The farmers and rural Ireland represent this banana republics best chances of removing the daw jawed incompetent buffoons that the impotent Irish electorate have put in charge.
FG,FF all fear the farmers. They are a large segment of voter. Rural Ireland to the rescue. They will do the job that the rest of the electorate are unable to do in this country.