ICMSA demands further milk price rises

THE Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association yesterday welcomed Kerry Group’s latest increase in milk price but said farmers still believed there must be a series of other increases in the pipeline.

Dairy Committee chairman Dominic Cronin pointed out that Kerry has a particularly high presence in the casein market and would therefore benefit disproportionately from the surge in that market.

He said the ICMSA would continue to review what he described as the “mysterious gap” between soaring international prices and prices Irish suppliers were receiving belatedly from their own co-ops.