Back to the drawing board on Milk Quota Exchange

IT IS time to admit the Milk Quota Exchange was a backward change, and return to the drawing board.

Thu, 03 May, 2007 - 01:00

Martin Ryan

While EU bureaucracy gets a bashing from farmers, the complexity of schemes generated in this country is frequently not far behind that of the work of the Eurocrats.

Farmers cannot be blamed for thinking the sound advice of ‘simple is best’ has been abandoned.

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