Dairy boss urges action to avoid ‘wasteful’ cost of superlevy

WITH two days to go to the end of the 2010/11 milk quota year, IFA National Dairy Committee chairman Kevin Kiersey urged all over quota dairy farmers and all co-ops to work closely together in coming days to avoid the “wasteful cost of superlevy for this year”.

He said he was determined to continue lobbying in Brussels with like-minded farm organisations and with the support from the Government to obtain greater concessions on quotas before 2015.

“All member states, including countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and even Germany, need to be able to benefit from the lower quota costs which the so-called ‘soft landing’ was meant to bring about.