Members of Glanbia’s founding co-op are voting this Friday on a corporate shake-up that would influence the industrial and farming landscape of Ireland’s rural south and east for years to come. The management and boards of Glanbia PLC, the US-centred high-tech food multinational, and Glanbia Co-op, the farmer organisation from which it emerged, want to untangle many of the links between the two entities and place its Irish agribusiness operations under full co-op ownership. They would have to adopt a new name different from Glanbia. Since 2012, Glanbia Ireland, the number one milk and grain buyer and largest primary dairy…

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