I remember once being out in the US on the edge of a gravel road chatting with an old farmer in Iowa and he spoke about the number of harvests he had completed and the number of harvests he had left in him.
As factories and farmers sat around the negotiating table this week last year in the hope of bringing the then beef protests to an end, base prices for bullocks and heifers stood at, €3.55-3.60/kg respectively.
Somehow it was hard not to picture the orphans in Oliver! singing Food, Glorious Food. For a brief moment, a soup kitchen in Soho seemed poised to become the best meal ticket in lockdown London. It came as a despairing Richard Corrigan, reeling from months of seeing his restaurants shuttered, wandered into town to clear...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a coronavirus lockdown in the country's largest city until the end of the week and introduced mandatory mask wearing on public transport across the nation.
Schools will reopen in Northern Ireland later for the first time since March.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers' advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated.
Shinzo Abe became Japan's longest-serving prime minister in terms of consecutive days in office, but there was little fanfare, as he visited a hospital for another check-up amid concerns about his health.
