Farmers Are Getting Up To 15% Less For Beef Than Last Year

That's according to a professor in agri-food economics at University College Cork. 

The finding comes as farmers continue their blockade of the ABP plant in Bandon today in a dispute over prices following the visit of a Chinese Trade Delegation yesterday.

Management at the plant and farmers reached an agreement on Friday to allow the delegation into the factory, however that agreement has now lapsed and protests are set to resume.   

A new organisation, called Independent Farmers of Ireland, met in the Midlands last night to plan protesters' next course of action.
The group have sought a meeting with the Agriculture Minister Michael Creed and have vowed to remain on the picket lines until he agrees to meet them and discuss beef prices

Thia Hennessy, the dean of Cork University Business School, confirms beef farmers' incomes have dropped significantly this year:

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