Export opportunity to Germany, sheep intestines, for Irish Farmers.

Cork boy 55

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,817372,00.html

For centuries, the citizens of Nuremberg have celebrated their petite bratwurst, which are often served up by the half dozen on heart-shaped plates. But one local producer says his costs have nearly tripled in the past 18 months, due to the rising costs of one key ingredient: sheep's intestines from Iran.

The price of sheep's intestines from Iran has risen dramatically recently and looks like getting cut off completely, if open war breaks out or if further sanctions are imposed.
I think Irish sheep farmers should take advantage of this situation and try to use the present crisis to form commercial contacts with Nuremberg Bratwurst Sausage makers.
Germans have a lot of speciality sausage makers and I see no reason some of the smaller German sausage manufacturing companies, would not be interested in making speciality German sausages, with high quality Irish ingedients.
I think Irish sheep farmers should be exporting intestines to Germany for sausage manufacture.
What is your opinion on this?

moy83

As they say about the pig " eat everything but the oink ":D
I think they should sell every possible part of our produce to every possible market .

CJhaughey

Theres more than that if you wanted to look at utilising all parts of animals.
They sell a lot of dried beef head parts for dog chews.
Lips/Ears/Windpipes/Tripe etc etc.
Dried at 130 deg C and sold for good money to pet owners.

Birdnuts

Sheep testicles are imported by a number of countries from Iran too - possibly a new export market??