Meat Industry Ireland has said it is happy for the Minister for Agriculture to look at the role of ‘controlled finishing units' or feedlots in the sector.
Ireland is facing strong competition from New Zealand and Canada for skilled dairy sector workers.
The battle for access to the €100m Brexit Beef Fund moved up a gear this week as the ICMSA insisted dairy farmers could not be excluded from the package, and the IFA told members that compensation levels could be under €100/hd.
The acting head of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has resigned amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency's stations in Texas.
GLANBIA'S Optimum Nutrition arm has rejected allegations made by Texas firm Symbology Innovations that it infringed a patent claimed by the US firm in using some quick response (QR) codes on its packaging.
The world is on course for "climate apartheid", where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a UN human rights report said yesterday.
Malaysia has ordered nearly 500 schools and kindergartens to close until tomorrow, after dozens of people were hospitalised with symptoms suggesting they breathed toxic fumes, possibly from industrial waste, the second such incident this year.
