Tuesday 17 July 2007

The Italian job by Justin McCarthy

From Meath to Milan - through the windscreen of a cattle truck
Last week I left Co Meath with a convoy of three cattle trucks carrying 190 Irish weanlings destined for feedlots in Verona, 300km south of Milan. In this article he reports on his road trip

Last Saturday I left Athenry at 4.30 am and travelled up to James Mallon's export yard in Co Meath. Despite having arrived in the yard at around 7.30am, it was a hive of activity with four lads sorting and batching weanlings into groups... click here to read full article on Farmers Journal website


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