Dairy farmers need CAP support

IRISH dairy farmers must be given a chance to adapt progressively to the new realities of Common Agricultural Policy.

That’s what IFA dairy committee chairman Michael Murphy told EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel when she visited Ireland last week.

He urged her to review urgently how she sets export refunds, aid levels and other supports and questioned what he described as her administration’s inflexible handling of dairy market supports.