Mr. Alan Wood:

I refer to the Vice Chairman's question. We are competing with the dairy herd to a degree but at the same time we have worked well together over the years. The Vice Chairman made the point on the Friesian cows killed. I printed this off the other day and I will show it to the committee: two cull cows slaughtered in the Newford herd, which is a herd set up in Athenry in one of the driest farms of land in Ireland. This is second cross; it is progeny. These two cull cows were the first cross of Friesian cows. They were Angus cows bought off the Friesian herd. They were not even Friesian cows. This is printed yesterday from Teagasc. These are two cull cows out of 30 April, the average carcass weight of which was 240 kg and the average price for which was €757. I have the list of the grades in fact, just as the Vice Chairman brought up. To put people in the picture, we have been sold by the ICBF for four or five years that the progeny of the dairy herd is the way forward as there is a smaller cow. This is what they produce, these are the grades taken independently and I would like the Vice Chairman to see the grades of the cattle.

I was referring to the Vice Chairman's question . It is important because it is a Teagasc farm. That is the way we have been driven by the ICBF.