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Agribusiness
Beyond Meat reflects category's problems
Phelim O'Neill
Consumers remain unattracted by either plant or laboratory-based fake meat products, but no room for farmer or industry complacency.
15 May 2024 Dealer
Macra faces a defining year
Unsustainable losses in 2023 mean Macra must rebound financially, and quickly.
14 May 2024 News
Case against Edenmore Meats over €2.7m debt settled
The collapse of Edenmore Meats left many farmers in hardship, it was claimed in court. Aodhan Ó Faoláin reports.
Losses continue at fake meat maker
Beyond Meat’s latest quarterly update showed declining revenue and another loss.
9 May 2024 News
Restructuring costs put Lakeland in the red
The cross-border dairy co-op has reported its financial results for 2023.
17 April 2024 Northern Ireland
World's largest meat processor made a loss in 2023
JBS move from huge profits in 2022 to losses in 2023, driven by perfect storm of high US cattle prices and weaker export markets.
31 March 2024 News
Winter finishers losing €200/head on stores
Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade including winter finishers margins
28 February 2024 Markets
Two years of losses at Karro Food Ltd
The pig-processing business operates a major site at Cookstown in Co Tyrone.
31 January 2024 Northern Ireland
Horticulture crisis fund payments begin issuing
The €2.38m fund supports a one-off payment to horticultural growers most affected by the continued high level of input costs.
29 January 2024 News
NPA accounts show return to Ploughing meant a surge in turnover
National Ploughing Association reports before-tax profit following two years of losses.
19 December 2023 News
Pig farmers: 'If I'm going to go through another bad spell I won't be in it'
Our profits are just getting eroded away every week by the processors, one pig farmer told the Irish Farmers Journal.
13 December 2023 Pigs
Pig price drops are 'pure profiteering' by processors
IFA pig chair Roy Gallie called a meeting in Portlaoise last week in the wake of seven price drops in the last three months.
13 December 2023 News