Macra support young dairy farmers

MACRA na Feirme has called for a 5% annual increase in Ireland’s national quota to be allocated to new and recent entrants to dairying.

Catherine Buckley, president, said radical changes are needed if young people are to be attracted into the industry.

“The targeting of increased quota to new and recent entrants is required to allow the farmers who are the future of the dairy industry to rapidly expand their businesses and to prepare for an environment where we will no longer have milk quotas,” she said.