Arrabawn Co-op has reported a €2.1m operating profit for 2015, a year when it processed record milk volumes for its 102-year history, with 353m litres handled, up 46m litres on 2014.

The agrifood industry is facing into an immense period of opportunity and challenge.

Dairy farmers can expect creamery milk prices to stay at around 35c or 38c per litre for the rest of the year, says Arrabawan Co-op chief executive Conor Ryan.

Cavan dairy farmers David and Kathleen Cassidy have been named overall winners of the 2012 NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards, known in the industry as the “Sam Maguire of farming”.

Offaly farmer George Gill says “Doxstar is the best product we’ve used to control docks and it has no adverse effect on grass or silage yields”.

Surgeons at Cork University Hospital have successfully reattached a man’s arm after it was sliced off in a workplace accident last Tuesday.

ARRABAWN DAIRIES will supply Aldi with Irish milk which they say will be up to 30% cheaper than the leading competing Irish brands.

Arrabawn Co-op has confirmed that it has agreed in principle with Kerry Group to purchase the Dawn Dairies milk business in Galway.

THE largest campaign of its kind ever undertaken by the Irish food and drinks industry commenced last Monday, supporting the Love Irish Food symbol.

MILK processors are coming under extreme pressure from dairy farmers to minimise price reductions as they meet to set April prices.

ARRABAWN Co-op has reduced its labour costs by 37.5% in five years period — helping the group to a €2.25 million bottom line turnaround.

CHEESE and whey will figure prominently in a €286m capital investment by milk processors, which includes €114m of Dairy Investment Fund grant assistance from the Government.

ARRABAWN Arrabawn Co-op has appointed Conor Ryan as chief executive with effect from June.

IAWS Co-op has upped its stake to 26% in NTR Plc, the operator of the National Toll Roads. IAWS now holds over 6.2 million ordinary shares in NTR, whose shares have shot up from €13 to €27 since October.

BUTTER produced by Arrabawn Co-op in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, and sold on export markets by the Irish Dairy Board under the Kerrygold brand, has won a gold medal at the cheese and buttermaking Olympics.