I was first to report almost three years ago on The Currency that Devenish was literally betting the farm as part of its restructuring from a traditional livestock feed manufacturer into a farm-to-fork provider of agricultural technologies. In a previous interview, Devenish’s executive chairman and majority owner Owner Brennan had outlined ambitious plans to expand from animal nutrition into, downstream, its impact on human health; and upstream, farming practices and inputs that preserved the environment, too. Mid-2020, the flagship research farm acting as the nerve centre of this global innovation effort at Dowth, Co Meath became collateral for the debt…

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