Agriculture experts lecture on beef, bulls, butchers and biodiversity

The relationship between food and culture will be explored at the summer conference and excursion| of the Agricultural History Society of Ireland at the County Arms Hotel in Birr, Co Offaly, on June 14-15.

Beef, bulls, butchers and biodiversity will be the theme of the conference which will feature a series of lectures on the Saturday by various experts in their field.

A field trip has been arranged for Sunday with John Feehan to the high biodiversity grassland of the Shannon-Athlone, Co Offaly region.