DEAR SIR: I am looking for some help with changing the milk payment system in Northern Ireland.

In my view, farmers must take responsibility for their own business as it stands today and look to the future. The dairy industry in Northern Ireland has been guided by too many commercial companies during a period when production of more litres could be made to seem profitable. Times have changed. Milk quotas have gone and commercial companies will not support us through low milk prices. Milk processors are guilty of encouraging farmers to produce more litres. It is time for farmers to do something about changing the milk payment system. If we wait for others to do something, we will be waiting a long time. I feel that the Irish Farmers Journal, the voice of Ireland’s farming industry, can help us inform farmers and processors on changing how they pay for milk.