Processors slash another 50-60c/kg off lamb quotes

The typical 21.5kg lamb is down €43/hd in four weeks

The factories have pulled prices for four weeks in a row. Photo: Roger Jones

Martin Coughlan

Merle Travis’s 1955 song Sixteen Tons defines, for me, the plight of the ordinary working man, with its chorus,

“You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.