The cows are as fat as snails 
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grants for sustainable farming
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You should get that framed lad
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Time those lads grew up
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Very light on detail that- graze your cattle on the uplands and Kelly’s spotted orchid will ride to the rescue? That’s about it. What if you dont have uplands?
Are you getting a drop now?
Can you run me through this please? How does the processing cartel work? Why did the competition authority not find anything amiss?
The competition authority didn’t raid a single office during their investigation, probably did a bit of Googling and determined that everything was fine.
He is the only one licensed to remove and process offal from the other factories (his competitors). If they offer farmers a few cent more then he does, the offal truck breaks down a few days in a row. Each factory have only a few days storage capacity so they have to shut down production.
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So he’s the only processor in the country for offal? That seems very weird.
Goodman is am utter cunt.Up there with DOB.He must have some serious dirt on a few high profile politicians.
they introduced and passed in a few days a whole companies act in 1990 to save his business and it has continued since then
Any more details on any of this stuff lads or where I could find it? Also. Have the beef farmer protests gone or are they in talks?
First, a minor history lesson
On 24 August 1990, Charlie Haughey, serving what would be his final term as Taoiseach, recalled the Dáil from its summer recess.
A regional dispute between two countries in the Persian Gulf, that had been simmering away during the summer months and for nearly a decade beforehand, had transformed suddenly into a headline-grabbing conflict, culminating on 2 August with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
If most Irish people hadn’t heard of Kuwait or Saddam Hussein at the time, they certainly had heard of the millionaire beef magnate Larry Goodman. His Goodman International group represented 40% of the Irish beef market but the group’s live cattle export dealings with Iraq had left it exposed to the political instability that flared up over the summer.
As a result of the conflict, non-payment by the already indebted Goodman Group’s Iraqi customers had left a £72 million hole in its books.
Politicians were unnerved by the potentially “catastrophic” effect that the Goodman Group’s collapse would have had on the Ireland’s economy at the time — which was massively reliant on agriculture, says Declan Taite, managing director of Duff & Phelps Corporate Finance in Dublin.
At the time, the only relevant legal processes for insolvent Irish companies — ie ones that can’t pay their debts — were liquidation, through which the company is wound up and its assets sold off, or receivership. The latter is a process through which a bank can take charge of an asset — a development site, an investment property or even the company itself — that has been borrowed against.
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In other words, there were no preventative measures on Irish statute books to help potentially viable but insolvent companies plot a way through a period of instability.
Because of the perceived strategic importance of the Goodman Group to the Irish economy, Taite explains that Haughey “recalled the Dáil from its summer vacation to facilitate the passing of new legislation, and it gave rise to the concept of examinership. The piece of legislation was the Companies Amendment Act of 1990″.
Although between 1991 and 1994 the Beef Tribunal would uncover certain damaging facts about Fianna Fáil’s relationship with beef barons including Goodman’s companies, the die was cast and the examinership process was cemented in law.
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You can nearly see the grass growing today, with the rain in the last week and now the heat the second cut will be coming on well.
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Could do with a good second cut. Yields were well back on the first cut.
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The growth in the past few days is brilliant. What a year for farmers !
I spotted a neighbour making third cut (by my count) off his silage ground there Wed evening… Its growing so fast he can hardly keep up
