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Dairy
Analysis: what now for Glanbia suppliers?
Aidan Brennan
Aidan Brennan takes a look at the implications of the news that no peak milk penalties or restrictions will apply in 2022.
20 April 2022 News
Glanbia to adjust peak milk supply scheme
A drop in supply volumes allows scope for changes to the peak milk supply scheme, which benefits suppliers.
30 March 2022 News
Food Vision dairy group interim report delayed
The much-anticipated draft interim report on the future of the dairy industry is expected to be published later this week.
Dairy farmer retirement scheme on the cards
Funding a dairy retirement scheme is the big question for the Department to answer, writes Jack Kennedy.
23 March 2022 News
Dairy farmer retirement scheme on the cards
Funding a dairy retirement scheme is the big question for the Department to answer, writes Jack Kennedy.
23 March 2022 News
Suspending the Food Vision dairy group is the ‘responsible’ thing to do - IFA
The IFA dairy chair called for the Department's sustainability group to be shelved as food scarcity concerns are discussed across Europe.
10 March 2022 News
McPhillips lays it on the line for dairy farmers
After months and years of rhetoric, we finally come to a moment of reckoning for dairy expansion.
9 March 2022 Dealer
No concrete proposals defined by Department for dairy sector – Minister
Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has shot down fears that a quota would be reintroduced for dairy farmers, saying it is “certainly not the case”.
8 March 2022 News
Department moves to reintroduce dairy quotas
The move comes just four weeks since the chair of the group, former Teagasc director Gerry Boyle, said any measures under consideration by the group would be voluntary.
8 March 2022 News
New Zealand signs trade deal with UK
New Zealand-UK trade deal will give exceptional access to the UK market for NZ agri-food produce.
2 March 2022 News
Meat processors stark warning on Australia trade
The trade negotiation between the UK and Australia failed to take into account the detail around how meat products are traded, an industry representative has said.
9 February 2022 News
Boyle must divine a strategy that cuts emissions while securing sectoral support
If 2015 will be remembered as the year when the milk-quota shackles finally came off, then 2022 looks like it will go down as the year when the spancel went back on.
6 February 2022 News