A difficult balancing act for milk producers

MILK production produces less greenhouse gas per kg of cow’s milk in Ireland than in any other EU member state.

But how can we increase our milk supply by 50% by 2020 and still meet national targets for reducing greenhouse gases 20%, also by 2020?

This question was central to a conference on ‘Towards a Sustainable Dairy Sector’ organised by the Society of Dairy Technology (a professional body for managers and researchers in dairy processing) in UCC recently.