European dairy industry starts transition to non-quota system

MILK quotas will start disappearing from the EU dairying picture in 2013, farmers were told at last week’s Teagasc National Dairy Conferences.

Leading economist Professor Alison Burrell from Wageningen University in Holland said the EU dairy sector is entering the pre-quota abolition period.

“The task for the European dairy industry is to promote the kind of structures that, 10 years from now, could make it ready for a painless transition into a world without quotas,” she said.