Urgent strategies required to survive low prices

THERE is an urgent requirement to put in place short-term strategies to survive the low milk price of 2009.

And in the longer term there is a need to develop low-cost grass-based systems to counteract future volatility in the milk price.

Those were the main messages from the Teagasc dairy open day that about 10,000 farmers attended at Moorepark Dairy Production Research Centre, Fermoy, Co Cork.