Agri-Business
Tirláns chair, John Murphy said "volatility wouldn't be a reason not to go into dairy farming" when speaking about new entrants.
N.Ireland
World dairy industry leaders this week debated how to solve milk price volatility at the International Dairy Federation's World Dairy Summit.
The introduction of a Farm Management Deposit Scheme remains the ICMSA’s key Budget requirement
Dairy
Ireland is only 12 months post-quota and a number of our dairy farmers are going to go bankrupt in 2016, according to Jackie Cahill TD.
ICOS, the umbrella body for the co-operative movement has launched a new proposal aimed at combatting extreme income volatility in the dairy sector.
The IFA National Dairy Committee is this week to start a series of meetings with all the dairy co-ops on behalf of milk producers facing into a tough cash flow situation this spring.
Dairy farmers can look forward to 'volatility proof' loans, according to the European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan.
It doesn't take a genius to understand that below cost milk production is not sustainable, according to John Comer.
Agri Politics
EU milk prices are expected to decline 2.0% in September; the lowest rate since February, the latest Milk Market Observatory (MMO) figures show.
Talking down milk prices is ill-advised and damaging in a world of global and instant communication, IFA Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O'Leary has said.
Current milk prices are putting a pinch on the purse-strings of a lot of farmers, according to former Macra na Feirme President Alan Jagoe.
We need a collaborative approach to address milk prices concerns, according to the North's Agriculture Minister, Michelle O’Neill.
Farming unions in the UK are to hold an urgent summit to discuss the problems facing the sector and in particular the crisis in the livestock and dairy sectors, the UFU said.
MEP Mairead McGuinness has called for a special meeting of the EU Agriculture Committee to debate the the falling prices farmers are receiving for their produce.
Belgian farmers have blocked roads, dumped manure and emptied tankers of milk in protest against the low prices they are receiving for their produce.
The current milk price on the world dairy market is a demand problem, and not one of supply, according to Fonterra Chief Executive, Theo Spierings.
FrieslandCampina has cut its guaranteed milk price for August to €28.50 per 100kg of milk which is the equivalent of 27.55c/L when converted to Irish constituents.
UK farmers today (July 24) staged a rolling tractor road block on the A50 in Staffordshire, UK, in protest about falling milk and lamb prices.
Arla Foods has cuts its UK milk price for August by 1c/kg, 0.8p when applied to the UK standard litre, for the third consecutive month.
Dairy intervention prices must be realigned to a producer price equivalent of 28c/L with immediate effect, according to Eamon O Cuiv.
UK supermarkets have entered into a milk price war in order to compete with German discounters Aldi and Lidl who have slashed their prices.
Dairy farmers must take a considered approach to expanding their businesses in the wake of milk quotas ending, according to Dairy Ireland's David Murphy.
The merger of Town of Monaghan and Ballyrashane co-ops will be completed within the next two months
