L’agricoltore teme che i ladri ritornino dopo il furto di bestiame per un valore di 30.000 euro

As a Dubliner who only knows about the cows in the supermarket where they make the milk. How many cows is €30k?

Check the Maguires

From reading the article I can see why it is unusual, it reads like an inside job. Someone who worked there or knew the place well. Cattle are only really valuable if you have corresponding paper work that matches their tag. You would need to have a tag that corresponds to the breed, sex and age of the animal if you wanted to sell the animal legally. It is doable and there are farmers who do it but it feels like so much effort, you be spending a lot of time and effort to work the system. Every calf has to have a record of the mother and the department will ask questions like why you need numbers for animals that magically appeared on your farm. Other than killing the animal for meat that is. The whole thing feels personal even.

Do you still get fellas going around the pubs on a Saturday selling meat out of carrier bags.??