Town of Monaghan has followed Kerry's lead to set a milk price of 27c/l including VAT for March supplies. Further March price increases are expected from other co-ops later this week as international dairy markets continue to improve. As we went to press the Glanbia board was meeting, with some members speculating a lift from [...]
Glanbia plc the international cheese and nutritional ingredients Group, has issued this 2009 full year pre-close trading statement. This statement has been prepared in accordance with the new segmental reporting announced at the 2009 half year results. The Group expects to announce 2009 full year results in early March 2010 for the year ended 2 [...]
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, today announced that he has approved the allocation of milk quota to a major research project aimed at the development of profitable, expanding dairy farms as the sector moves towards quota abolition. The project is being undertaken by Teagasc's Moorepark Dairy Production Research Centre in [...]
Smearlaview Forbidden Vixan becomes the Baileys Irish Champion Cow for 2009 20 August, 2009: The search for Ireland's most beautiful cow reached its climax yesterday at the Virginia Show in Co Cavan with Irish dairy farmer and breeder, John Kirby from Listowel, Co Kerry going home a very happy man. His cow, Smearlaview Forbidden Vixan, [...]
Irish Dairy farmers cannot rely on the EU Commission to support milk prices at a reasonable level in 2009 unless there is a major change of attitude at European level, the ICMSA has warned. Speaking after a meeting with Thorkild Rasmussen, head of the EU Commission's dairy division, ICMSA dairy chairman John O'Leary said the [...]
The number of applications by buyers for the milk quota exchange has fallen by 1,500 since the first in November. Figures released by the Department of Agriculture show that the number of buyers for the March exchange is just 1,100, compared to 2,600 in the first exchange. The number of sellers has risen by 60, [...]
