Dairy
Dairy farmers will need to weigh up whether the newly announced Milk Supply Reduction scheme will suit their business, according to IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O’Leary.
It remains to be seen whether the Irish Government will match the €11m the state received via the latest EU dairy package.
Agri Politics
Last week, the European Commission announced that Ireland would receive €11.1m of ring-fenced funding from its new €500m dairy package.
'It is essential that the new dairy aid package has a similar targeted measure for young farmers like the previous aid package had in March.'
EU Member States will be able to use part of the €350m conditional adjustment aid allocated under the recent EU aid package to sectors other than the dairy sector, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan has said.
Beef
ICSA President, Patrick Kent, has questioned the granting of a further rescue package for dairy farmers while beef farmers continue to seek fair play for their own sector.
Following the announcement of the latest EU dairy package, farm organisations have called for the measures to be delivered urgently.
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney has announced details of the direct aid package for the dairy and pig sectors of €27.4m.
It is understood that the Department of Agriculture has decided on some of the key details of the payment of the EU dairy aid package this week.
