Polish milk producers have bigger profits than Irish

FOR farm investors looking at Poland, it may come as a surprise that milk production costings are quite similar to Ireland.

Real estate firms like Brown and Co, who are helping investors in Polish farms, admit that variable and fixed costs are only 11% lower than Ireland, and catching up, as the economy adjusts to EU membership.

Brown and Co's figures for a 400,000 gallons farm in Poland include a milk price much the same as Ireland's.