Dairy, beef farmers call for urgent action

Irish farmers urgently need a 28c per litre intervention milk price and a sustained effort to re-open the Russian market, ICMSA president John Comer has stated.

The dairy supplier group leader estimates that income to milk suppliers has fallen by €800m in the two years since 2014, with a knock-on loss to the wider rural economy of at least €1.36bn.

Dairy farmers can’t keep producing milk for less than the cost of production, he said.