Dairy farmers consider Dairygold’s new milk pricing system ‘workable’

NORTH Cork dairy farmers are broadly happy that they can meet the calving and production guidelines in Dairygold’s new milk pricing system, it emerged at an IFA-hosted meeting in Mallow last night.

While around 400 of the Co-op’s 3,000 suppliers will probably choose Dairygold’s opt-out mode of a price based on an average of the last three years, the vast majority believe the new system is workable.

Looking ahead to the 2015 post-quota era, the co-op will attempt to control investment in new processing equipment by spreading milk production into traditionally weaker months.