Huge margins being made on milk

MILK should be included in Feila Biá, the Bord Bia programme committed to sourcing quality local food produce, the IFA suggested yesterday.

Liquid Milk Committee chairman Donal Kelleher said the move would give consumers the option of locally produced, fully traceable, high quality milk in restaurants and hotels.

He said the catering trade is making huge margins on liquid milk, but uses increasing quantities of imported products and then charges up to ten times the price producers receive.