Can Irish dairy survive the Irish Government?

Rachel Martin, Irish Examiner Farming Editor, compares the climate action approaches of the dairy sectors in the EU and USA

As we are about to begin scaling back production in Ireland, other countries, where agricultural emissions are much higher, are already raring to ramp up cow numbers.

Someone joked with me at the Ploughing that the theme for this year’s supplement was “Can the Irish dairy sector survive the Irish Government?” 

I might have laughed at the time, but like many words said in jest, it’s not all that far from the current sentiment among Irish dairy farmers.