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Editorial: silent boom of the beef market
Jack Kennedy
We do have to recognise the muscle of the beef superpowers when they put their minds to exporting.
22 January 2025 News
Trump trade fears may be overstated
Ireland remains very well placed in its main export markets.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report
His address was alarmingly short on specifics, and dealt almost entirely in generalisations.
Game changer in UK-US trade negotiation
If the US dropped the demand for hormone fed beef access, a trade deal with the UK could be negotiated quite quickly in 2025.
20 December 2024 News
More pork access for Paraguay in Mercosur deal
The recent Mercosur deal was not a full renegotiation, rather a tightening of environmental issues that were frustrating ratification in the EU.
18 December 2024 News
Mercosur ‘not a cars-for-beef swap’
The Commission's line is that EU dairy stands to gain from a trade deal with Mercosur.
18 December 2024 News
Tories vow to scrap inheritance tax plan
Shadow Farming Minister Robbie Moore speaks to Peter McCann about inheritance tax and farm policy changes since Brexit.
18 December 2024 Northern Ireland
US could drop hormone-fed beef from UK deal
If the US drops its insistence on hormone-fed beef getting access to the UK as part of a trade deal, it would be a real game-changer.
18 December 2024 News
What the Mercosur deal means for Irish farmers
The Mercosur deal announced last week is the same as the one announced in 2019 with an additional environmental and sustainability dimension.
11 December 2024 News
Level playing field needed for farmers, says Hansen
The new agriculture commissioner suggested that the EU will not need to use to emergency import stop for beef Mercosur imports if the deal passes.
11 December 2024 News
Brussels protest: Mercosur a 'red-line issue' for government formation
Adam Woods reports from Brussels, where a flash protest on the Mercosur trade deal took place on Monday morning.
9 December 2024 News
Mercosur: what the trade deal means
A quarter of a century has passed since the negotiations between the EU and Mercosur countries began, but the finishing line is in sight.
6 December 2024 News