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.

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.