Dairy farmers need support
Speaking ahead of a meeting with Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to discuss the dairy crisis, he said EU supports must be utilised rapidly to turn around market sentiment and prices.
“Minister Coveney must work hard with Commissioner Hogan and his European colleagues to deliver additional EU support measures urgently, to reduce as much as possible the duration of this market downturn,” said Mr O’Leary.
The IFA dairy spokesman also recently met with the COPA Milk Group in Brussels to canvas for European recognition of the need for milk price supports.
This meeting preceded the EU Commission Civil Dialogue Group on milk, which reviewed, among other topics, EU market measures to deal with the major negative impact of the Russian ban on European dairy markets.
