Protesting farmers halt milk deliveries

TILLAGE farmers protesting about grain prices briefly disrupted milk deliveries to a Dairygold processing plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday.

The growers blocked the entrance to the milk powder plant with a four-wheel drive vehicle and prevented trucks making deliveries.

Irate farmers, who began their protest at 6am, demanded a meeting with Dairygold chief executive Jerry Henchy. They called off their action at 7.40am after the meeting was arranged.