Dairy sector needs to grasp opportunity for change
The group has been in existence for five years and has had the opportunity to meet industry leaders and policy makers with the view to highlighting the farmers perspective and what is necessary to build sustainable family farm units in Ireland, and also to encourage career choices for farmers who might not own land but wish to build a future in dairy farming.
Ireland’s dairy industry was placed in suspension when milk quotas were introduced in the early 1980s, capping our production at just over 5bn litres nationally. The milk quota policy stagnated the industry, but at last this regime is coming to an end in 2015 and farmers can once again drive forward with what has traditionally been one of the more profitable farm enterprises of milk production.
