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wendell borton wrote: »

Not really, Irish ag products are at the higher end of a growing market. There's also secondary industries such as food processing and ingredients to be considered.

Yes really....dairying aside (protected industry which will inevitably lead to lower margins after quotas go)

Farming is relatively low margin....your average suckler cow makes approx e300 -400 profit at best...,and the average suckler herd is 15cows in Ireland....not earth shattering profitability there


Even the processing is not hugely profitable.....I did recall reading profit and turnover figures of a small enough processor before.....turn over was like e180million and profit e2million at the time....

Though that is a small processes not the man affectionately known as the beef Barron who has the rights to process the waste/offal and turns a big margin on this....but afaik his accounts aren't ever released...that I know of