Glenisk woos drystock sector

Encouraging news for cattle farmers in the midlands has come from an unlikely source — the organic yoghurt maker, Glenisk.

Announcing plans to double their current workforce of 60 in the next four to five years, managing director Vincent Cleary said there is strong potential for growth in exports, on course to account for up to a fifth of their sales next year.

He said there were 20,000 suckler farmers barely making a living in the region, and Glenisk hopes to offer them an opportunity to enter the dairy sector and supply Glenisk.