End of quotas will allow dairy farm start-ups

START-UP dairy farms will become much more feasible when milk quotas go, the big attendance at Moorepark ‘07 was told.

Teagasc revealed their financial evaluations of stand-alone dairy farms on green-field sites to the estimated open day attendance of 10,000.

They looked at prospects for farms of 100 hectares and 200 hectares, with capacities for 250 and 500 cows, respectively, over 15 years, with all capital investment depreciated to zero over that period.