Beef pricing system must be overhauled for transparency

Bord Bia’s graph shows August prices rising in France, Italy and the UK, but slumping in Ireland.

“Crisis beef summit” thundered the front page headline last week in a well-known Irish farming newspaper.

Apparently farmers in Britain are now getting upwards of €300 a head more for their beef than we are here, a price gap which IFA president John Bryan described as a “scandal”.