Leading meat industry figure honoured

ONE of the leading figures in the Irish meat industry, Dan Browne, has been honoured by the Agricultural Science Association.

He was presented with the association’s distinguished member award at its annual conference in Galway in recognition of his outstanding contribution to agriculture and to the agri-food industry over the past 50 years.

Mr Browne, who is from a farming background in Douglas, Cork, started his career as a research scientist. After graduating from UCD in 1959 with a degree in agricultural science, he joined the newly established agricultural research institute — An Foras Talúntais.