On this week’s episode of FarmLand, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed gives us the inside track on what happened at the 12th Beef Roundtable discussion, as farmers flocked to the city streets in protest.Eamon Corley Meath IFA livestock chair and spokesperson of the newly-formed Beef Plan Group outlines why he believes farmers have “lost confidence” in farm unions and highlights how this new group aims to shake-up the beef industry.Des Morrison ICMSA livestock chair and Michael Fitzmaurice independent TD for Roscommon-Galway go head-to-head in a debate over the potential of contract rearing to boost incomes and efficiencies for drystock and dairy farmers.We get the word on the street from farmers that boycotted this week’s Beef Forum; plus, Kieran Henry, a Sligo-based suckler farmer and contract rearer, explains how diversifying his enterprise has brought it from strength-to-strength.