Farmers party at end of milk quotas

Farmers around the country will celebrate the end of EU milk quotas on March 31.

However, about 800km away in Brussels, farmers who fear milk markets will collapse without quotas will drive their tractors and light fires in the Place du Luxembourg, as a protest action.

From next Wednesday, EU dairy farmers will be able to produce as much milk as they want, and farmers in the village of Ninemilehouse, near Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, are among those who will mark this historic rural change.