Farmers warned of milk super-levy

FARMERS were warned yesterday that the country is heading towards a hefty milk super-levy.

A survey by the co-ops national umbrella body, the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS), has revealed that the over-quota position at the end of December was 28.6 million litres.

George Kearns, ICOS dairy committee secretary, said if supplies followed the same pattern as last year for the remaining three months, then a super-levy position was inevitable.