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Dairy industry leaders this week debated the pros and cons of using futures contracts to solve the problem of milk price volatility at…
The introduction of a Farm Management Deposit Scheme remains the ICMSA’s key Budget requirement, according to the organisation’s President John Comer. “We discussed…
Ireland is only 12 months post-quota and unfortunately, a number of our dairy farmers are going to go bankrupt in 2016, according to…
ICOS, the umbrella body for the co-operative movement, has launched a new proposal aimed at combating extreme income volatility in the dairy sector.…
The IFA National Dairy Committee is to start a series of meetings this week with all the dairy co-ops, on behalf of milk producers facing…
Dairy farmers can look forward to ‘volatility proof’ loans, according to the European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan. Speaking at the ICOS national…
It doesn’t take a genius to understand that below cost milk production is not sustainable, according to the President of the ICMSA John…
EU milk prices are expected to decline by 0.2% in September; the lowest rate since February, the latest Milk Market Observatory (MMO) figures…
Talking down milk prices is ill-advised and damaging in a world of global and instant communication, IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O’Leary…
Current milk prices are putting a pinch on the purse-strings of a lot of farmers, according to former Macra na Feirme President Alan…
The dairy sector needs a collaborative approach to address milk prices concerns, according to the North’s Agriculture Minister, Michelle O’Neill. All parts of…
Farming unions in the UK are to hold an urgent summit to discuss the problems facing the sector and in particular the crisis…
MEP Mairead McGuinness has called for a special meeting of the EU Agriculture Committee to debate the the falling prices farmers are receiving…
Belgian farmers have blocked roads, dumped manure and emptied tankers of milk in protest against the low prices they are receiving for their…
Milk prices should improve in the second half of the year, according to Fonterra Chief Executive, Theo Spierings. He told the New Zealand Herald that…
FrieslandCampina has cut its guaranteed milk price for raw milk for August to €28.50 per 100kg of milk which is the equivalent of 27.55c/L…
UK farmers staged a rolling tractor road block last week on the A50 in Staffordshire, UK, in protest about falling milk and lamb…
Arla Foods has cuts its UK milk price for August by 1c/kg – 0.8p when applied to the UK standard litre – for…
