'Where's the beef?': All you need to know about the farmer protests
'Where's the beef?' is a famous American catchphrase but for suckler farmers in this country, the refrain has more often been "where's the money?"
Renewed, but this time unofficial, protests have resumed outside some meat processing plants as farmers maintain that the prices they are receiving for cattle brought to the factory are so low that it could result in many deciding to leave the sector.
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