Co-ops can no longer sell NI milk as EU product due to Brexit

'Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland milk is all mixed into the one milk pool and separating those two is costly for processors' 

Automated milking machines are now part of the production process. File Picture.  

Selling Northern Ireland milk as EU milk is the latest Brexit problem being tackled by the Government, after problems arose for co-ops which use 900m litres of milk coming south from Northern Ireland farms to be processed.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney told the Dail: “Lakeland Dairies is probably the best example of a processor which has a very significant percentage of its milk pool coming from the North, but Glanbia and others do too.