Farmers in campaign against milk cuts

DAIRY co-op board members are to be lobbied by the IFA in the next few days as part of a campaign to resist milk price cuts.

The move follows a meeting in Brussels last week between EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler and a dairy industry delegation led by Agriculture and Food Minister Joe Walsh and IFA president John Dillon.

The IFA leader told the commissioner how dairy farmers had lost an average of €10,200 in 2002, due to price cuts and on-farm cost increases.