Milk producers face €5.5m super levy

Ireland: Based on current projections, milk producers are facing a super levy bill of €5.5m in the current quota year, Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan has warned.

She said the estimated fat-adjusted milk deliveries at the end of February 2005 were 0.23% over the national quota. Ms Coughlan stressed the responsibility for managing quotas and ultimately the payment of super levy rests with the individual producer.

“It is vitally important individual producers should review their own situation, taking into account their own production levels, the level of deliveries to their co-operative/ dairy and the national situation,” she said.