Marts: More than one in three bullocks supplied to Donegal Meats is grading R3, the highest ratio at any factory in the country for the first half of 2005.

CATTLE farmers, led by IFA President John Dillon, mounted a protest against price cuts by the meat factories at the head offices of the country’s largest processor, the Allied Irish Beef Processors (AIBP) group of Goodman Plants, in Ardee, Co Louth yesterday.