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THE Government is coming under pressure to intervene in the dispute between Glanbia and An Taisce over the planned €140m cheese plant at Belview. Taoiseach Micheál Martin was forced to comment in the Dáil last week on the matter, when questioned by TDs. He said people had the right to object to significant projects, but he cautioned that the judicial review process should not be used as a mechanism to delay vital infrastructure. “There is an independent planning process. It is rigorous an...

Last month, a High Court case commenced between Glanbia Ireland and An Taisce over proposed plans to build a €140m continental cheese plant in Belview, Co Kilkenny. The judicial review centres on the decision of An Bord Pleanála to uphold planning permission for the joint venture between Glanbia and Dutch dairy producer Royal A-Ware Food Group – a family-owned company in business for the last 150 years. An Taisce pursued the judicial review – heard by Judge Richard Humphreys – as it c...

Glanbia informed IFA about the judicial review being initiated by An Taisce at a meeting last November, the association has confirmed. In a statement on the matter, IFA stated that: “At that meeting, Glanbia was clear that they preferred to deal with the matter behind the scenes. IFA respected that position". Meanwhile, the statement added that, at a meeting with IFA this week “Glanbia revised this position and rightly called out An Taisce for their reprehensible actions.” The update ...

Cows calving on the dairy farm of Bill OKeeffe at Clara, Co Kilkenny. We are back to the rain this week in Clara, but we had an exceptional couple of weeks before that, with grazing conditions almost perfect. It has been an excellent opportunity to graze some of the wetter paddocks on the farm. It was also a great opportunity to get the maiden heifers out to grass and settled in to their grazing routine. It’s great to get them out early and settled into a grass diet for as long as possible be...

Photo: DutchNews.nl The largest Dutch supermarket chain, Albert Heijn, has launched its own environmentally-friendly logo for fruit and vegetables, complementing its quality labels for pork and dairy products. The move has been criticised by competitors and food standards experts as making the crowded field of environmental certification even more congested. ‘The more different labels there are, the more consumers will be put off,’ Joyce van de Bos of EKO told the FD. The ‘Beter Voor’ l...

SHARING OPTIONS: Friesland Campina has sold the milk powder towers at its dairy processing site in Belgium to rival company Royal A-Ware. On Monday this week, Dutch dairy co-op FrieslandCampina announced it had reached an agreement to sell its milk powder business in Aalter, Belgium, to rival Dutch dairy company Royal A-Ware. While the details of the transaction were not disclosed, FrieslandCampina said the milk powder business at Aalter has an annual capac...