Brian Reidy: Reducing the dry period to lower milk production costs
It’s always amazing how milk buyers can drop 3c and 4c in consecutive months, but are never able to increase milk prices by those figures.
2025 will go down as a very good year for milk and beef producers in Ireland. The weather in general played ball and prices remained buoyant, notwithstanding the recent milk price slump. It’s always amazing how milk buyers can drop 3c and 4c in consecutive months, but are never able to increase milk prices by those figures!
While there is still a lot of grass on many farms, it may now prove difficult to graze it out, with the volume of rain in the forecast as I write for the last days of October and the start of November.
