Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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To broaden it out to the dairy side, if the weather in winter is middling and grass is plentiful, cows might have to go in and many farmers would buy store lambs. With the new nitrates rules, can the witnesses envisage a problem in that regard? Store lamb is a bad trade at the moment, to put it simply. Is it the knock-on effect that the dairy men have the banding and the new nitrates rules and they are pulling back?