The announcement by the Government this morning that the State had bought the research farm put on the market in Dowth, Co Meath by Devenish marks an important step in the Belfast-headquartered livestock nutrition group’s deleveraging and refocus on its core feed production activities. Ministers for Housing Darragh O’Brien and for Heritage Malcolm Noonan travelled to the site this Friday, in the World Heritage-listed Boyne Valley, to announce that it would become Ireland’s seventh national park under the Brú na Bóinne name. A spokeswoman for the National Parks and Wildlife Service told The Currency the price for the acquisition was…