Dairy
DII welcomed budget announcements, describing them as a “vote of confidence in farmers and the industry’s monumental water quality efforts".
Some positives in the Irish dairy industry are not being communicated effectively, according to a Munster Technical University professor.
The Irish dairy industry is seeing a “huge opportunity” in changing nutrition trends from both a farming and processing perspective.
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) is set to hold an event next week targeted at 'future-proofing Ireland’s white gold’.
DII has launched what it calls a new strategy to cut dairy farm emissions by 25% and processor emissions by 35% by 2030.
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) said Ireland's EU presidency will provide an opportunity to showcase our dairy sector on the European stage.
Agri-Business
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) is urging a "measured and immediate" de-escalation of the ongoing nationwide fuel protests.
The representative body for business has claimed that ongoing protests and blockades are presenting 'health and safety risks to workers'.
DII has said that Ireland's co-operative milk supply model is already in line with new EU rules on milk supply contracts.
Dairy News
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) said it is "monitoring the geopolitical situation hour-by-hour" as conflict continues in the Middle East.
DII has warned that newly revised tariffs on EU dairy exports to China will make EU and Irish products uncompetitive in the Chinese market.
The director of DII has said that the Ibec group is "naturally disappointed" that there will be no access for dairy products to India.
DII, the Ibec body that represents the dairy processing sector, has welcomed the confirmation of Ireland's nitrates derogation.
With the European Commission confirming today (Thursday, November 27) that it is proposing that...
DII has said that €45 billion could be lost to the Irish economy if the nitrates derogation is not renewed for Ireland.
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) said a new EU-US trade deal provides a "degree of stability" and avoids the escalation of a tariff war.
DII has said that the latest development on the derogation was never previously mentioned in meetings with the European Commission.
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) has welcomed the agreement on the alignment of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules between the EU and the UK.
DII has said that the dairy sector is approaching "early and high" milk volumes, which "may lead to some changes" in collection schedules.
Ireland has "got over worse things before" in relation to the US tariffs according to the director of Dairy Industry Ireland (DII),
The European Dairy Association (EDA) has condemned "sweeping tariffs" by the US administration on goods from the European Union.
A new initiative, Project Connect, which will aim to promote Irish agriculture, could be finalised in the first quarter of 2025.
Environment
Six agricultural organisations have come together to issue a joint declaration based on what is needed to maintain the nitrates derogation
