Farmers in sugar beet protest

A procession of tractors and beet trailers made their way through the centre of a Cork town today to highlight the threat to the sugar beet industry.

The three-mile long line of 150 tractors, trailers, beet harvesters and sprayers stretched assembled along the hard shoulder of the Cork-Limerick road outside Mallow and drove in through the town to the Irish Sugar factory six kilometres away.