Larry Goodman’s C&D Foods factory is the latest to be picketed by farmers in the ongoing beef crisis.
Some 30 farmers gathered at the plant, located in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, at 6pm on Saturday.
C&D Foods is the largest private-label pet food manufacturer in Europe, with a turnover of €500m and manufacturing operations in seven different countries.
Until February 2019, the business was still part-owned by Philip Reynolds, son of the company’s founder and former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
Local Fine Gael councillor Garry Murtagh told the Irish Farmers Journal that the protesting farmers wanted to “bring Larry Goodman to the table for talks on Monday”.
Concessions
They want concessions on the 30-month age limit, four-movement rule and payment for the fifth quarter, like other protesting farmers in other locations across the country.
Murtagh described the farmers’ plan as “a peaceful protest, and not let any lorries in or out”.
“There is a whole industry making a living out of farmers, that depend on farmers. There is no other industry that does the work they do.”
It is understood that farmers have also started protesting at the Kepak plant in nearby Ballymahon over the weekend.
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Larry Goodman’s C&D Foods factory is the latest to be picketed by farmers in the ongoing beef crisis.
Some 30 farmers gathered at the plant, located in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, at 6pm on Saturday.
C&D Foods is the largest private-label pet food manufacturer in Europe, with a turnover of €500m and manufacturing operations in seven different countries.
Until February 2019, the business was still part-owned by Philip Reynolds, son of the company’s founder and former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
Local Fine Gael councillor Garry Murtagh told the Irish Farmers Journal that the protesting farmers wanted to “bring Larry Goodman to the table for talks on Monday”.
Concessions
They want concessions on the 30-month age limit, four-movement rule and payment for the fifth quarter, like other protesting farmers in other locations across the country.
Murtagh described the farmers’ plan as “a peaceful protest, and not let any lorries in or out”.
“There is a whole industry making a living out of farmers, that depend on farmers. There is no other industry that does the work they do.”
It is understood that farmers have also started protesting at the Kepak plant in nearby Ballymahon over the weekend.
Read more
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