{"id":279249,"date":"2026-01-11T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:11:12","slug":"i-am-not-fatalistic-about-this-agriculture-minister-martin-heydon-moves-to-reassure-farmers-over-mercosur-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279249\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am not fatalistic about this\u2019 \u2013 Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon moves to reassure farmers over Mercosur deal"},"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\">Fine Gael TD says protections are in place to counter any major disruption to beef prices\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5ece888c-5936-44e0-8ba2-c5a70bb2eb07.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)\">Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon<\/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)\">The Agriculture Minister, Martin Heydon, has urged farmers not to feel \u201cfatalistic\u201d about the Mercosur trade deal, saying safeguards are in place to protect them from any major disruption to beef prices from South American produce flooding the market.<\/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)\">\u201cThere will always be something for farmers to worry about, but we navigate these things,\u201d Mr Heydon told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fine Gael TD says protections are in place to counter any major disruption to beef prices Agriculture Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,60840,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,30839,6644,5765,5,44,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-279249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-farming-environment","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-martin-heydon","19":"tag-mary-regan","20":"tag-micheal-martin","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-simon-harris","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115876402844940912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}