Potential €5.3m bonus for beef club members

Already, there are more than 21,000 animals in this scheme, which was launched in April 2019.

The President of an EU cooperative group Cogeca Ramon Armengol visited Dara Walton’s family farm in Kilkenny recently to see first-hand how the dairy calf to beef programme works. Included are, from left: Ramon Armengol, President of Cogeca; Jonathan Forbes, Kepak; Martin Ryan, Glanbia Ireland Head of Beef, Equine and Pet and Dara Walton, Twenty20 Beef Club participant. Picture: Finbarr O’Rourke

Farmers in the Twenty20 Beef Club are earning a bonus of over €100 for each of their dairy beef animals.

The bonus value will be about €5.3m per year, if club partners Glanbia Co-op and Kepak Group reach their target of 50,000 animals contracted to the Club, in its third year.