50% more milk in five years ‘very reasonable’

After three decades of severe milk quota restrictions, dairy farmers and potential new entrants to dairying face into an era which offers great opportunities for development and success.

Side by side with these opportunities are risks which must be carefully managed, to avoid serious financial problems.

While some device for reducing EU dairy mountains in the late seventies and early eighties was necessary, the implementation of quotas for over 30 years was a disaster for Irish farmers, rural Ireland and the economy of Ireland.