Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board

And I think... that if the state owns those lands and if the state is serious about doing anything about TB, the state should insist that those organisations carry out a proper call and proper management of their land.

And on Wednesday, she caught up with Eimear Gallagher-Hall from Board Bia at its first ever horticulture seminar in Kildare to talk about the future of the sector.

Now with Eimear Gallagher-Hall, the Senior Sector Manager for Horticulture.

So Eimear, we're here at the inaugural Horticulture Conference for Board B, I hear, attended by many growers and people within the industry.

I think it was Claire Nash that took it.

And they're standing in the lobby of Bord Bia.

And I know it was a difficult time for everybody, but you have to see the humanity in it, in their pyjamas.

Yeah.

The family all lived in Nice.

Trevor's dad, Michael, worked for Bordbia.

When Trevor finished school in 1996, he started a course in business at Waterford IT.

Now, the course didn't suit him and he didn't love it.

So that whole idea of him driving all the way from Castle Bar to Nace.

and then traveling on to Dublin.

He doesn't know what awaits him, but in those first few hours, he goes to the Bordbia offices to park his car at his dad's parking spot and then begins walking the streets.

And he walks around Coppers on Harcourt Street, goes up around the Hilton Hotel, walks down the canal.

Yeah.

And you're now challenging retailers, Teagasc, the Department and Bord Bia to do the same exercise with the bullock.

So what are you asking them to show?

I'd ask them to trace the bullock and show where, where, where, where the money goes.

So it is.

This is punishment against farmers for actions earlier on in the year, which, which would've looked bad on the minister, i.e., the Bord Bia protest, and look, even the fuel protest to a certain degree.

I'm not saying that's the case, but that's certainly a belief held by a cohort of, of farmers out there.

Darren, moving on to you.

So, it was a... quite a nice evening, Monday, and there was a lot of farmers at work.

So to get over 250 growers in the room, it really showed Bord Bia, um, that...

the struggle that these farmers are facing.

Yeah.

Mm

... previously called a drying charge or a handling charge.

But, look, uh, Bord Bia weren't for turning, and it seems like that 10 euro per ton charge is going to stay in place for 2026.

They don't have the 10 euro, they said, Connor.

Can you give an insight into the 2026 markets and the trends so far this year?

Just, I suppose, based on the, on the Bord Bia, um, website there over the last couple of weeks, Cat- uh, Catherine, um, you know, cattle slaughter and Irish meat plants, uh, have totaled about, you know, about 33,500, uh, head, uh, up until the last...

Or sorry, on the last week of September, uh, based on the Department of Agricultural figures.

Um, that'd be an, a, a slight increase there, we'll say, in comparison to last year of about 3,400 cattle.

The Vietnamese market opened beef exports in January with a population of more than 100 million and a growing demand for imported beef.

Bord Bia has now officially launched Irish beef in Ho Chi Minh City, showcasing Irish grass-fed beef to chefs, restaurant owners, distributors, and media.

The launch comes as demand for premium imported beef continues to grow in Vietnam, particularly across hot pot and Korean and Japanese barbecue restaurants.

Bord Bia says beef consumption in Vietnam is expected to grow by around 4.6% each year until 2028.

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Mm-hmm.

Um, but I suppose, you know, what World Egg Day is trying to emphasize is, you know, through the, the umbrella of Bord Bia, is that the consumer out there You know, as a way of safeguarding, you know, both welfare and sustainability, that they look out for the Bord Bia quality mark.

Mm-hmm.

Um, because that's, that's the indicator that, you know, the farmers and the packing centers and everybody in the chain are, are abiding by Bord Bia quality standards, as well as, you know, national standards and European standards.

We're keeping our eggs-

Like, we are the envy of Europe-