West Cork dairy farmers top earners again in 2019

Carbery co-ops filled four of the top five milk price league positions

Cheese vats at Carbery, the dairy, ingredients, and flavours producer owned by and supplied with milk by four West Cork co-ops which pay the country's highest milk prices.

West Cork’s established place at the top of the Irish milk price league continued in 2019, with the four local co-ops that supply Carbery filling four of the top five positions in the Irish Farmers Journal/KPMG annual milk price review of prices paid by the processors of about 85% of the Irish manufacturing milk supply.

Barryroe Co-op topped the review for the second year in a row, paying a 2019 average of 35.29 cents per litre (excluding VAT), at 3.52% protein and 4.12% fat.