Minister Michael Creed needs to get to grips with collapsed milk price

Together with some of my colleagues I was happy to accept an invitation from our new Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Michael Creed TD, to meet him in the department last Thursday.

It would be a considerable understatement to say that we had matters to discuss.

Mr Creed takes up his office when our family dairy farm system — which ICMSA regards as the jewel in our agri-crown — has been decimated by a collapse in milk price that has seen a near 50% fall over the two years from 2014.