Driving through the Irish countryside we saw countless small farms, each with a small herd of cattle or a few flocks of sheep. I don’t know what a head of beef goes for on the Irish market–I’d guess maybe between 800 and 1600 euro. Seems like you’d have to sell at least a hundred head per year just to eke by. No farm that I saw had that kind of stock. So how does it all add up? Well, now I know.
The Farmer in the Till
