US beef market could be worth €100m annually
A new deal allowing Irish beef to be sold in the US for the first time in over 15 years could be worth well over €100m a year to this country.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney confirmed the scale of the potential windfall to the beef industry, after it emerged Ireland would be the first EU state to secure access to the US market. The ban was imposed following the BSE outbreaks in Britain and Ireland in the late 1990s, but a drop in beef herds has seen its removal by US secretary for agriculture Tom Vilsack.
