ICMSA warns on dairy sector sell-out

A SELL-OUT of the dairy sector in world trade talks is the real agenda behind the dismantling of milk quotas by the European Commission, the leader of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association Jackie Cahill has claimed.

He warned that such a sell-out would leave Irish and other European dairy farmers selling milk at world prices plus three or four cents.

“The alarms should be ringing loudly in every office in the Irish dairy sector now but, almost unbelievably, we still have those who are unwilling or unable to see the threat looming up in front of them.