Dairy
Irish dairy farmers were paid the third lowest milk price of all Member States in March, recent figures from the European Commission show.
Global milk production increased by 3.4% in January-February 2016, mainly due to strong production growth in the EU.
Last week Ireland offered 1,769t of SMP into public intervention, more than any other country offered to the measure last week.
At the most recent meeting to the EU Milk Market Observatory (MMO) highlighted the current high EU Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP) stocks.
Milk prices across the EU increased in September for the fist time in 14 months according to latest figures from the Milk Market Observatory (MMO).
ICOS has put together a set of proposals aimed at strengthening Irish and EU dairy, not only for the short term.
