{"id":287399,"date":"2026-02-08T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:22:38","slug":"farming-in-ireland-is-having-an-identity-crisis-and-it-has-to-stop-talking-itself-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287399\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Farming in Ireland is having an identity crisis \u2013 and it has to stop talking itself down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">FRS Co-Op boss Colin Donnery is on the front foot, looking for M&amp;A opportunities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colin Donnery of FRS Co-Op\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/025.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Colin Donnery of FRS Co-Op<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sitting in his Co Tipperary office, overlooking tractors and large agricultural lorries on the Dublin Road into Roscrea, Colin Donnery laments the \u201cidentity crisis\u201d currently facing Irish farming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the helm of FRS Co-Op, Donnery leads an organisation whose reach extends from farm relief services and recruitment, to technology and fencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRS Co-Op boss Colin Donnery is on the front foot, looking for M&amp;A opportunities Colin Donnery of FRS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119981,137971,119980,137972,137973,137974,61,60,43,5913],"class_list":{"0":"post-287399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-agri-business-eu","9":"tag-agri-companies","10":"tag-agri-food","11":"tag-agri-jobs","12":"tag-farming-finance","13":"tag-farming-world-news","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sean-pollock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}