The price of British beef is set to soar under new proposals outlined by the Food Standards Agency, it was suggested today.

MIXED results for automated beef carcass grading in Ireland over the last three years have not put British farmers off.

CONSUMERS are winning, but farmers and processors are losing, in a recession battle raging in the beef industry.

BEEF industry sources in Northern Ireland have expressed disquiet at imports of about 700 slaughter cattle per week from the South.

AN IRISH industry that can undercut its competitors in Britain sounds too good to be true.

BRITISH farmers have joined their Irish counterparts in an attack on low Irish beef prices.

An export ban prompted by the foot and mouth outbreak will cost the British red meat industry around £10m (€14m) per week, it was estimated today.