Co-ops urged to increase milk price to give farmers 'badly needed boost'

Mr Murphy said that improvements are "undeniable", and it is "now imperative that those improvements made their way back to the farmer-producer in the form of improved milk price". 

Co-ops are being urged to increase their milk price to provide dairy farmers with a "badly needed confidence boost" after an extremely difficult 12 months.

Speaking in advance of the February round of milk price announcements, the chairman of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association dairy committee Noel Murphy said that February was a "positive month" in terms of dairy product prices and that this positive trend has been ongoing since last September.