Michael Creed favours beef contracts, price reports

Contracts for winter beef finishers are recommended by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed.

“We strongly support the use of contracts overall, particularly for winter finishers, although it is not clear that a mandatory regime would necessarily be in the best interest of all farmers,” he said in the Dail.

He was asked in the Dáil by Longford-Westmeath Labour TD Willie Penrose how the EU’s agricultural markets task force will help get a fairer price for Irish beef and lamb producers.