A PROGRAMME that led to a doubling of profits on 16 beef farms could help ease the moratorium on public sector recruitment to ensure the lessons of the trial are not lost.

FARM groups in the North and in the Republic have met to examine aspects of Europe’s new dairy package which could mitigate against net exporters like Ireland.

AGRICULTURE is the key to economic recovery, the annual Macra na Feirme rally was told at its opening in Bantry, Co Cork, last night.