Farmers won't supply cattle to plant until €3.5m is paid

FARMERS warned yesterday that they would not supply cattle to Tralee Beef and Lamb plant, which has been sold to new owners.

Farmers won't supply cattle to plant until €3.5m is paid
Thu, 01 Aug, 2002 - 01:00
Ray Ryan, Agriculture Correspondent

Some 300 farmers from Kerry, Limerick and Cork are owed €3.5m for cattle supplied to the plant before it was put into receivership last October.

The completion of the sale of the plant to West Kerry businessmen Robert Noonan and Haulie O'Shea was confirmed yesterday. But the IFA deputy president Ruaidhri Deasy said the position of farmer creditors and suppliers remained unchanged.

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