irish milk suppliers are to receive €11.5m from the €280m emergency aid package for the dairy sector, which was announced by the EU Commission in October. Clearance for the payments was given by member states last week and the money will be distributed according to production during the 2008/09 quota year. The cash must be [...]
Food group Glanbia has made in a loss in the first half of this year, the company revealed this morning. “Continued volatility in global dairy markets has severely impacted the performance of Food Ingredients Ireland,” said a statement from the company. “As a consequence this business has become loss-making and is having a detrimental effect [...]
Last Friday's formal demand by the critical Franco/German alliance for a suspension to the Commission's policy of expanding quota as the first welcome sign that sanity might yet prevail in the formulation of EU dairy policy. 'The news that Minister Aigner of Germany and Minister Le Maire have written to Commissioner Fischer Boel requesting a [...]
The Irish Governments decision to allocate the modulated funds in the form of grants rather then direct payment is flawed, bizarre and unacceptable. It proved yet again how removed from reality the Minister and his Department actually are. Linking eligibility for the grants to yet more expenditure on the part of dairy farmers is both [...]
Average farm income dropped by 13.7% in 2008 as input costs rose by the same figure. It is feared they will drop another 10% this year. Teagasc National Farm Survey head Liam Connolly said 'incomes could drop by over 10% again this year, that more farmers would have to reappraise their involvement in the business [...]
ICSA Munster vice president Edmond Phelan has reacted to the Competition Authority
report on the retail sector by saying that farmers are not to blame for price
differentials between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
“When you see farmers being paid 20c/litre for milk and receiving just over €3.00/kg
for beef and €3.80/kg for lamb,
Thousands of farmers are expected to demonstrate over poor market returns in Luxembourg on Monday (22 June) when EU farm ministers gather for their monthly council meeting.
The mass demonstration, which will involve farmers from all the EU’s 27 member states – including six from the UK – is being organised by EU farmers’ body COPA-COGECA.
“Food [...]
Following a meeting with Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith, the IFA Deputy President Derek Deane said the commitment given to him by the Minister Smith to provide real competition in the area of animal collection must be delivered on immediately.
It is unjustifiable for farmers to be charged more to haul fallen animals than the rates [...]
The ICMSA has slammed Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel for her comments that milk supply and demand across the EU will have to be rebalanced before farmer incomes can recover.
Speaking at last Friday's Farm Council meeting in Luxembourg, Commissioner Fischer Boel ruled out additional support for the dairy sector and suggested that milk production would [...]
Irish Farmers strongly criticised Dairygold for cutting their milk price by 2c/l for February, and by a further 2c/l for March, so that Dairygold suppliers would be left with a March price of 20c/l + VAT. Milk suppliers were furious that the Board of Dairygold were leading milk prices down, turning their back on a [...]
