Higher profitability focus of Positive Farmers Conference

NEXT week’s annual Positive Farmers Conference is billed by organisers as the most important dairy conference in Ireland in 25 years.

“Expand profitably at low risk” is the theme, as farmers look forward to the abolition of EU milk quotas in 2015.

The end of quotas presents Ireland with the potential to increase production by 400% by 2035, says Michael Murphy, long involved in this conference, which was first held in 2000.