​​​​​Marts Report: Farming needs less bureaucrats and more visionaries

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​​​​​Marts Report: Farming needs less bureaucrats and more visionaries

At Skibbereen Mart last Friday, this Simmental cow, born in 2018, weighed 770kg and sold for €1,700.

Wed, 19 May, 2021 - 09:11
Denis Lehane

Earlier this week, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, welcomed farmers back to the mart.

Wasn’t he’s the lucky man that we stuck around during Covid and didn’t bailout. We generated €3.4bn of exports for Ireland last year.

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