Sean O'Leary: Big ‘new milk’ producers have least in storage

The countries with the largest post-quota milk output increases are also the only ones with real marketing plans for that extra product, said IFA dairy chairman Sean O’Leary.

He said new research from AHDB, the UK equivalent to Teagasc, has shown the Netherlands, Ireland and Germany, between them, only have 16% of their extra ‘new milk’ sitting in intervention or aids to private storage (APS) schemes.

This compares to Belgium with 86%, and France with 68% of their milk reliant on those market support measures.