Sour taste to cheap UK milk

Dairy farmers are entitled to feel aggrieved at market forces — especially if they also rear beef cattle.

Their co-ops have pounced on cheap supplies of milk from the UK, to keep underused factories busy, producing dairy goods for shipping back across the Irish Sea.

As a result of unprecedentedly high milk imports for manufacturing, Irish dairy farmers are losing out on the usual dependence of processors here on Irish milk.