ICMSA calls for milk price correction

THE Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association claimed yesterday that an inexplicable and glaring gap has emerged between the price being received by farmers for their milk and the market returns being received by the country’s co-ops.

ICMSA Dairy Committee chairman Dominic Cronin, noting that a number of co-op board meetings are due to take place over the next few weeks, said it was imperative that this utterly unacceptable gap was closed.

He said the gap between the Irish Dairy Board’s on account price and the price being received by farmers now stands at 9c/litre (41c/gallon).