Dairy industry leaders this week debated the pros and cons of using futures contracts to solve the problem of milk...
November 3, 2017
The introduction of a Farm Management Deposit Scheme remains the ICMSA’s key Budget requirement, according to the organisation’s President John...
October 11, 2016
Ireland is only 12 months post-quota and unfortunately, a number of our dairy farmers are going to go bankrupt in...
May 5, 2016
ICOS, the umbrella body for the co-operative movement, has launched a new proposal aimed at combating extreme income volatility in...
February 10, 2016
The IFA National Dairy Committee is to start a series of meetings this week with all the dairy co-ops, on behalf of...
January 7, 2016
Dairy farmers can look forward to ‘volatility proof’ loans, according to the European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan. Speaking at...
November 4, 2015
It doesn’t take a genius to understand that below cost milk production is not sustainable, according to the President of...
November 3, 2015
EU milk prices are expected to decline by 0.2% in September; the lowest rate since February, the latest Milk Market...
October 6, 2015
Talking down milk prices is ill-advised and damaging in a world of global and instant communication, IFA National Dairy Committee...
August 28, 2015
Current milk prices are putting a pinch on the purse-strings of a lot of farmers, according to former Macra na...
August 26, 2015
The dairy sector needs a collaborative approach to address milk prices concerns, according to the North’s Agriculture Minister, Michelle O’Neill....
August 9, 2015
Farming unions in the UK are to hold an urgent summit to discuss the problems facing the sector and in...
August 8, 2015
MEP Mairead McGuinness has called for a special meeting of the EU Agriculture Committee to debate the the falling prices...
August 5, 2015
Belgian farmers have blocked roads, dumped manure and emptied tankers of milk in protest against the low prices they are...
July 31, 2015
Milk prices should improve in the second half of the year, according to Fonterra Chief Executive, Theo Spierings. He told the...
July 30, 2015
FrieslandCampina has cut its guaranteed milk price for raw milk for August to €28.50 per 100kg of milk which is the...
UK farmers staged a rolling tractor road block last week on the A50 in Staffordshire, UK, in protest about falling...
July 27, 2015
Arla Foods has cuts its UK milk price for August by 1c/kg – 0.8p when applied to the UK standard...
July 24, 2015
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