Stephen Cadogan: Why every dairy farmer needs a cash buffer in 2025

A recent Dairy Edge podcast has advised dairy farmers with cash surpluses to make sure they have a rainy-day fund, or cash reserve fund

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Dairy farmers with cash surpluses should make sure they have a rainy-day fund, or cash reserve fund, advises Teagasc farm management specialist Kevin Connolly.

On a recent Dairy Edge podcast, he said: “It could be the case there will be bad years to come, or difficult years to come, and those cash surpluses would be most welcome in those years. Having that buffer of a fund, that you could call on, is a useful thing.