{"id":65077,"date":"2025-08-13T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:45:12","slug":"are-farmers-boosting-their-margins-to-blame-for-rising-grocery-prices-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65077\/","title":{"rendered":"Are farmers boosting their margins to blame for rising grocery prices? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The board of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/nz-co-op-offers-sweeteners-to-farmers-in-bid-to-secure-support-for-dawn-meats-128m-deal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/nz-co-op-offers-sweeteners-to-farmers-in-bid-to-secure-support-for-dawn-meats-128m-deal\/\">Alliance Group in New Zealand<\/a> is hoping a sprinkling of financial sweeteners and the enticing prospect of increased bargaining power over international customers can convince enough of its 4,200 farmer shareholders to back its recommendation to hand over control of the farmer-owned red meat co-operative to Ireland\u2019s Dawn Meats. Nigel Sterling reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/blame-the-farmers-not-supermakets-for-the-price-of-food\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/blame-the-farmers-not-supermakets-for-the-price-of-food\/\">farmers not supermarkets<\/a> to blame for the rising price of food in recent years? John McManus offers his view. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/your-money\/2025\/08\/13\/overpaying-your-mortgage-is-not-always-a-good-idea\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/your-money\/2025\/08\/13\/overpaying-your-mortgage-is-not-always-a-good-idea\/\">Overpaying your mortgage<\/a> and shorter terms are not always a good idea, writes Joanne Hunt in our Money Matters column. If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/theirishtimes.lt.emlnk1.com\/Prod\/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuaXJpc2h0aW1lcy5jb20lMkZuZXdzbGV0dGVycyUzRnV0bV9zb3VyY2UlM0ROZXdzbGV0dGVyJTI2dXRtX21lZGl1bSUzRGVtYWlsJTI2dXRtX2NvbnRlbnQlM0RSU1MlMjUzQUlURU0lMjUzQVRJVExFJTI2dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduJTNEYnVzaW5lc3NfdG9kYXlfZGlnZXN0&amp;sig=4kSj6MVtJhDySXD8zno7jMoXwZGc1dpLM3xhR9Fc9b5k&amp;iat=1673852841&amp;a=%7C%7C89275494%7C%7C&amp;account=theirishtimes%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom&amp;email=Dc0R66saiYNu2sbROXCOD2QOP8ZXmRzMvz3Yw%2BcA7gI%3D&amp;s=0d5371d23ecde798f8f0f88cc635413b&amp;i=21237A21683A12A963031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A taxpayer who expected to make a \u20ac2m profit from developing a site in Ireland for housing was instead left with \u20ac61,000 tax bill from Revenue. Gordon Deegan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/taxpayer-expected-to-make-2m-profit-from-developing-a-site-for-housing-but-instead-was-left-with-61000-tax-bill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/taxpayer-expected-to-make-2m-profit-from-developing-a-site-for-housing-but-instead-was-left-with-61000-tax-bill\/\">has the details<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/pizza-chain-bambino-gets-green-light-for-outdoor-tables-at-merrion-street-outlet\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/pizza-chain-bambino-gets-green-light-for-outdoor-tables-at-merrion-street-outlet\/\">pizza chain Bambino<\/a> has been granted permission to have three outdoor tables outside one of its locations in Dublin, after An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la overturned the local authority\u2019s refusal of the application. Hugh Dooley reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/schoolbook-rep-at-publisher-was-informed-of-redundancy-when-wife-read-him-email-while-he-was-in-sick-bed-wrc-told\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/schoolbook-rep-at-publisher-was-informed-of-redundancy-when-wife-read-him-email-while-he-was-in-sick-bed-wrc-told\/\">schoolbook rep in Sligo<\/a> was informed of redundancy when his wife read him an email from his employer while he was in his sick bed with Covid, the WRC was told this week. Stephen Bourke reports on the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The main Irish arm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/irish-unit-of-analog-devices-pays-out-dividends-of-54bn\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/08\/12\/irish-unit-of-analog-devices-pays-out-dividends-of-54bn\/\">US-based semiconductor manufacturer Analog Devices<\/a> paid out combined dividends of $5.4 billion (\u20ac4.7 billion) this year and in 2024, writes Gordon Deegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The board of Alliance Group in New Zealand is hoping a sprinkling of financial sweeteners and the enticing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,51941,164],"class_list":["post-65077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-business-today","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}