10th November 2001
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10th November 2001
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Huge surge in milk supplies By Paul Mooney GLANBIA has gone from being two million gallons over quota to more than three million gallons over the period of last week. The group is now contacting some milk suppliers individually to warn them of the risk of superlevy. It is making superlevy deductions from more suppliers than ever before, generally spring calving herds delaying drying off. The excellent grass growth through October has pushed the country over quota. Virtually all co-ops report that milk deliveries have exceptional, well over the levels of last year. "There has been piles of grass and grass of good quality," a Glanbia spokesman said yesterday (Wednesday). Within that group Premier is just 150,000 gallons over, the former Avonmore and Waterford regions account for the other 2.85 million gallon excess. Dairygold reports that deliveries are now running 30 per cent higher than last November on a weekly basis. It is already about 1.2 per cent, two million gallons, over quota. Cows are milking exceptionally well off grass for the time of year, a spokesman said. Kerry is now 3 million over quota following a surge in October and supplies remain strong. Golden Vale is now 500,000 over quota. The good grass growth and workable grazing conditions mean milk constituents are also high as cows enter late lactation. This is boosting price but - on butterfat - is further eating into quotas. All figures now being issued take into account the extra 11.5 million gallons of quota allocated to producers this year under Agenda 2000. |
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