Life after €12m budget cut

THE MOST important topic for research at Teagasc this year is how to get your work done, having had your annual budget cut

Like farmers, the organisation’s 1,500 advisors, researchers, and educators got bad news in the Government estimates last November.

Arguably, the tightening of the Teagasc purse strings was a bigger blow for the agri-food industry than grants and REPS cutbacks, the doubling of disease levies, and the transfer of beef-processing costs to factories and farmers.