Dairy is ‘optimum’ business choice, agricultural consultant tells seminar

Dairy farmers are more likely than those in beef, pork, and tillage to answer Ireland’s call for agri-food expansion, Cork-based agri-business consultant Michael Brady has said.

Speaking at last night’s ‘Your Farm, Your Business’ seminar in Carrigaline Court Hotel, Co Cork, Mr Brady said dairy farmers were the only ones whose businesses stood a realistic chance of profitability once EU subsidies were removed from the equation.

“The single farm payment will be around at least until most of the farmers working today have reached retirement age, but I encourage people to analyse how profitable their business would be without their farm payments.