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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Sugar future not looking so sweet in EC plans

The plan to radically reform the sugar regime across Europe puts Irish production at stake, reports Agribusiness Correspondent Ray Ryan.

Mon, 21 Nov, 2005

Ireland’s best tillage crop on borrowed time

BEET growers were warned this week that they may be only two weeks away from the death of their industry, as IFA briefed farmers around the country on its fight against EU sugar reforms which Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel will try to finalise in the Council of Ministers meeting starting on November 22.

Thu, 10 Nov, 2005

Last gasp sugar effort call

BEET growers’ leader Jim O’Regan has called for a last gasp effort to save the sugar industry, which is delivering payments of €1,200 per acre to farmers for this year’s bumper crop.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2005