Attendants to this year's Irish Grassland Annual Dairy Conference will be able to hear keynote speaker, Alan Dukes outline his views for a successful Irish agricultural and dairy industry in the future. The conference, to be held at Rochestown Park Hotel on Tuesday 12 January will deliver technical messages to commercial dairy farmers for the [...]
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 [...]
THE government’s ‘flawed’ policy is contributing to the current crisis in the dairy sector, according to ICMSA President Jackie Cahill. “EU milk production is increasing at a time when consumption is falling. The resultant market imbalance has caused the biggest crisis in the dairy sector ever. The crisis is due to extra milk production in [...]
After months of struggle and speculation, the European Commission has proposed a new way forward for European dairy farmers. The Commission says it will continue to use instruments such as intervention, private storage aid and export refunds to ease the crisis, but it will allow direct payments to farmers to be paid early and has [...]
