Call for milk quota region with Britain

A CALL to have Ireland and Britain treated as one region for milk quota trading was made by Macra na Feirme president Colm Markey in Sligo last night.

He told the opening session of Macra’s three-day annual conference that there has been a lot of talk in recent times about allowing the cross-border trading of milk quotas within the EU.

But this could be dangerous for Ireland as quota could be sucked towards the centre of Europe.