Milk message gets through

NOW that European farmers and their co-operatives have come together to call a halt to the European Commission’s current policy for managing the EU dairy market, Brussels may relent the pressure on dairy farmers.

For the past year, Irish dairy farmers have condemned the cut after cut made by the Commission in EU dairy product market support.

A belated response can be expected, now that the Commission’s policy is starting to bite on the continent, and the COPA and COGECA farmers and co-ops organisations in the EU have called for a new approach, after the next Mid Term Review intervention price cut, on July 1.