Worried Irish milk producers cut production to avoid superlevy

IRISH milk producers are continuing to pull back production in order to avoid superlevy next March, said IFA National Dairy Committee chairman Kevin Kiersey.

Mr Kiersey was speaking in relation to the CSO’s milk output figures for November 2011, which show that milk production was 21.6% down on the same month in 2010.

He stressed that January to November production was significantly up, over 4.8%, and the implications of such strong production increases for superlevy earlier in the year was what had necessitated the drastic pull back in the back end.