Sheep farmers raise sugar beet fears

THE ending of sugar beet production in Ireland will have important knock-on implications for the sheep business, the was claimed yesterday.

Gabriel Gilmartin, Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association, said store lamb producers from the west of Ireland will have to re-examine their options now that their customers in the beet growing areas will no longer have beet tops available for grazing.

“There were 90,000 acres in Ireland last year.