ICMSA’s outgoing chief predicts huge opportunities for dairy sector

Farming is at a crossroads of immense challenges and opportunities, said outgoing ICMSA general secretary Ciarán Dolan.

ICMSA’s outgoing chief predicts huge opportunities for dairy sector

In stepping down from his position as general secretary of the Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers Association, Mr Dolan said that farmers are facing considerable complex challenges. He also cited huge opportunities for the sector, notably with the end of the milk quota restrictions due in 2015.

“The challenges and difficulties facing individual farm families and the wider sector have probably never been as demanding or as complex, but the rewards — in terms of the individual and in terms of the sector and the nation — have never been so attainable and so badly needed by both farmers and the country.

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