Age of opportunity beckons for milk

Teddy Cashman is six months in the job of IFA national liquid milk chairman.

He represents specialist dairy farmers in a business regulated by the National Milk Agency which ensures the year round fresh supply of drinking milk to Irish consumers. They supply dairies which have undergone huge consolidation in recent years.

Now, Glanbia, Connacht Gold and Arrabawn are the main dairies, but 25% of the milk drank by southern consumers comes from Northern Ireland.