Dairy board to consider marketing collaboration with overseas bodies

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) will consider marketing collaborations with a number of overseas representative dairy bodies at private meetings scheduled during next month’s global milk conference in New Zealand, says its chief executive Kevin Lane.

The IDB leader also believes that the interests of Irish dairy farmers would be best served by bringing the dairy marketing activities of all Irish dairy farmers under one umbrella.

The IDB currently represents only 60% of Irish dairy farmers, but is about to implement a new strategic plan which could attract the other 40% into the fold, Mr Lane told delegates yesterday at the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) Ltd 36th National Conference in Citywest Hotel, Dublin.