Book recalls struggle to get market value for livestock

LIVESTOCK farmers striving for a better return for their labours will find inspiration in a new book which goes back to their predecessors’ first opportunity to achieve market value.

That was the breakthrough achieved when Ireland’s first marts were established, according to John Roche of Castleisland, Co Kerry, who played his own unique role in Irish agribusiness by chairing the meeting at which Kerry Co-op was set up.

Mr Roche was launching Recollections of the Co-op Years, a personal 240-page account by Maurice Colbert, former executive secretary of the Irish Co-operative Organisations Society (ICOS) National Marts Committee.