Milk is Ireland’s carbon efficient rural white gold

Milk is the white gold of the rural economy, with the recent ICOS National Conference in UCC hearing that dairy expansion from 2016 to 2020 will result in a €2.7 billion economic impact for rural Ireland.

Milk is the white gold of the rural economy, with the recent ICOS National Conference in UCC hearing that dairy expansion from 2016 to 2020 will result in a €2.7 billion economic impact for rural Ireland.

John Higgins from EY Ireland told the conference that, for each additional litre of milk produced, there is a 90 cent additional economic benefit.