June 3, 2021 7:12 pm
Representatives from individual meat processors attended a meeting of the Beef Market Taskforce for the first time today (Thursday, May 3).
At previous meetings before today, the processing sector was represented on the taskforce collectively by Meat Industry Ireland (MII).
However, after recent calls from a number of farm organisations, eight meat processors sent their own representatives to take part in the online meeting.
Agriland understands that the eight processors were ABP, Dawn Meats, Kepak, Kildare Chilling, Ashbourne Meats, Liffey Meats, Dunleavy Meats and Slaney Foods.
It is understood that, among the range of topics that were under discussion, weighing facilities at factories and the 30-month in-spec bonus rule featured prominently.