Dairy focused on input costs

Irish farmers depend on low production costs to stay in the race, suggests Stephen Cadogan.

This year, our dairy farmers will have to hang on in there, while more expensively produced mik round the world dries up, because falling prices make production unsustainable.

Every farmer around the world can make money on milk if they are paid in the mid-to-high 30-40 cent per litre range which farmers here enjoyed in 2013 and 2014.