Huge increase in price of concentrates

There has been a huge increase in the price of concentrates, and this situation is likely to get worse.

For decades, maize by-products such as corn gluten and distillers have been the mainstay of our ruminant rations, but due to the risk of contamination with new genetically modified maize crops, which have been approved in the US but not yet in the EU, shippers will not take the chance to bring them to the EU.

The Irish authorities are no help in this regard, as they generally go along with the EU snail’s pace of approving the GM products that are already approved in the US and other parts of the world.