Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion
Mr. Sean Coughlan:
I do not agree, simply because the core customers for the pedigree breeders are the commercial farmers. Pedigree breeders sell some bulls to other pedigree breeders but the vast majority of pedigree bulls go to commercial farmers. Therefore, they need to be suitable for those commercial farmers.