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Irish Dairy Farmers will be left high and dry

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 [...]

Fall in milk quota applicants

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, from 340 [...]