Hundreds of beef farmers protested May 9 against "corporate greed and factories hanging them to dry."

Participants in the Beef Plan movement traveled from the center of Ballinasloe in Galway County to the Shirwater Hotel, where the Beef Summit organized by the Irish Farmers Magazine was attended by the Minister of Agriculture and key industry experts.

The main organizer of the Beef Plan movement, Eamon Corley, told Rural Ireland that the Minister of Agriculture should take responsibility for the low rate of return in the beef sector and ensure that every beef farmer receives at least production costs plus margins.

Walking through the city, protesting farmers carried a coffin on a horse and a cart with the words "Rural Ireland" on the one hand and "Beef Farmer" on the other, which, according to Imon Corley, means that "when the beef producer dies, then he dies and rural Ireland. "

One of the leaders of the protest movement, Arthur Kennedy, a beef farmer in Ballon County, Carlow County, said: "The government needs to wake up and see what happens, we are busted."

“The factories are trying to drive us away from our farms without paying us the proper wages,” said Ger Dinen, one of the top 10 producers of Irish beef.