The cash-strapped air ambulance is set to be thrown a massive cash lifeline by farmers.

A group of milk suppliers who protested outside Kerry Group Headquarters in Tralee on Wednesday morning say they will escalate their protests if their demands to meet with management on milk price is not met.

For a variety of reasons, any large tracts of land that come up on or near the Ring of Kerry get plenty of attention from both the media and those in the farming community.

North Kerry land will always get plenty of attention from the market place — especially if it consists of good quality grassland.

Kerry Co-op Ltd (Kerry Co-operative Creameries Ltd) has held a number of meetings in the last week regarding the proposed redemption of co-op shares.

The public auction on Tuesday, May 30 of a 110-acre farm located near Killarney should guarantee a sizeable turnout.

Maltesers, a favourite sweet for more than 80 years, and now available in the USA, includes a key ingredient exclusively supplied by the Kerry Foods Global taste and nutrition business.

Kerry Group has reaffirmed its commitment to its milk suppliers in Munster amid local surprise at group CEO Stan McCarthy’s decision to step down from his role as co-op chief executive.

Kerry Group has reaffirmed its commitment to its milk suppliers in Munster amid local surprise at group CEO Stan McCarthy’s decision to step down from his role as co-op chief executive.

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Glanbia has announced a May milk price lift of 1.9c/l to 35.3c/l plus Vat; earlier Kerry Co-op had lifted their May milk price 2.86c/l to 36.26c/l plus VAT.

Kerry Co-op members are to share a €270m windfall in Kerry Group shares next month, bringing to €2.9bn the total value of shares transferred to co-op members in the past 20 years.

AMBITIOUS plans to expand the dairy sector will cost farmers less than half of the €825 million they spent buying quota over the past 20 years, the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has said.

MEMBERS of Kerry Co-op have approved a change in shareholder regulations which is now likely to lead to the transfer of 25% of their shareholding to Kerry Group PLC.

KERRY Group has given firm commitments on milk price and any capital investments required for future processing at strategy meetings with farmer groups in Dublin yesterday.

MORE than 1,600 Kerry Co-op shareholders yesterday agreed by an 80% majority to changes which will net them a €290 million windfall in a share exchange with Kerry Group.

DAIRY farmers and the Irish co-ops have come up with a joint plan to agree competitive loans with Rabobank, a leading US bank and other overseas lenders.

A TD has warned any businesses trying to profit from Cork’s flood disaster that they will be reported to the director of consumer affairs.

DAIRY farmers held an emergency meeting in Tralee last night to call on Kerry Co-op to adjust its milk price upwards.

KERRY CO-OP shareholders in south Munster are in line for a €200m plus windfall in the coming months.

FEW relationships in the world of business are stranger than that between Irish dairy farmers and the public limited company arms of their co-ops.

KERRY Co-op has transferred 10% of its equity stake in Kerry Group Plc directly back to its farmer shareholders.

ONE of the country’s best-known dairy farms is exiting the industry to make way for a new highway.

KERRY Group legend Denis Brosnan has walked away from the leading global food ingredients company he helped create.