We wish the best of luck to Tipperary dairy farmer John O’Gorman, newly appointed chairman of Dairygold Co-op.

It will be important for Dairygold that the successful developments and growth created under the tenure of outgoing chairman James Lynch are further developed.

As one of the largest processors in farmer ownership, there is a great onus on John to continue that development at a pivotal time in the dairy industry.

Like other milk processors, Dairygold has invested significantly in increased processing capacity to allow suppliers benefit from producing extra milk.

Investment

It is clear dairy farmers have benefitted from improved milk prices on higher volumes for the last year and this is the start of the return on this extra investment in capital infrastructure.

Milk volumes processed by Dairygold have lifted from 824m litres in 2009 to 1.3bn litres in 2017, which is testament to the board strategy led by James Lynch that Dairygold farmers have signed up to.