Farmers hit out at Dairygold’s new milk supplier agreement

One young farmer signing up to Dairygold’s new milk supplier agreement will need to earn over €53,000 pre-tax just to cover his contributions to the co-op over the next six years, says a group of suppliers opposed to the deal.

Suppliers from Tipperary as well as north, south, and east Cork, gathered in Mitchelstown on Thursday night for a meeting on Dairygold’s proposed Milk Supplier Agreement (MSA).

One attendee was a young Cork farmer, who prefers to remain anonymous, who in the last three years has built his quota up to 500,000 litres.