No simple solutions to dairy sector woes, warns co-ops umbrella body

IT would be wrong of farmers to believe there are significant further savings to be made through staff or other cost reductions in the dairy industry, the co-ops umbrella body ICOS declared yesterday.

Irish Co-operative Organisation Society director general John Tyrrell said the vast majority of those cuts had already been made as co-ops continued to tighten their expenditures.

Mr Tyrrell warned farmers there would be no simple solutions to the difficulties facing the dairy sector.