The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has bought the Cheese Warehouse, a British-based cheese ingredients company.

Specialist financial services sector journal Finance Dublin has selected Irish Dairy Board’s innovative new €190m corporate loan facility among its prestigious award winners for 2012.

Glanbia has predicted lower Dairy Ireland operating profit and margins for the first half of 2011, as global dairy market prices continue to weaken, and reductions in input costs such as milk price lag behind dairy ingredient price trends.

Innovative products and an equally unique €350m loan facility have set the Irish Dairy Board on a solid footing for anticipated post-milk quota growth.

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has appointed Fergal McGarry as global marketing and innovation director as part of its post-milk quota export strategy.

TEAGASC and the Irish Dairy Board have jointly announced the creation of a new Dairy Innovation Centre in Moorepark.

FARMERS will get monthly and quarterly guides to the performance of dairy products with a new Purchasing Price Index from the Irish Dairy Board.

IRISH banks have been lashed for failing to support agriculture — “the best growth story in the Irish economy” — by Irish Dairy Board chief executive Kevin Lane.

AGRI-FOOD job creation in the coming years looks set to match the surge in interest in the sector’s third level college places, according to one recruitment expert.

IF IRELAND had Germany’s milk delivery pattern, up to 60% expansion could be catered for without spending on extra processing plant, according to Irish Dairy Board and Dairygold Co-op chairman Vincent Buckley.

FARMERS are coming under increasing financial pressure by the artificially low price for milk and butter being imposed by the Irish Dairy Board (IDB).

THE new chief executive of the Irish Dairy Board is Kevin Lane, a native of Brosna, Co Kerry, who is currently with the Kerry Group.

A MOTHER-of-three has swapped her idyllic life in Co Wicklow to take control of thousands of tonnes of food aid being shipped in to east Africa.

THE co-ops’ umbrella body, ICOS, has been described as a “toothless talking shop” at the European Dairy Farmers Congress in Cork.

GLANBIA’S milk price slumped to last place in the Dutch Dairy Board’s international milk price review for March.

DR SEÁN BRADY has been appointed interim chief executive officer of the Irish Dairy Board, following the resignation of Noel Coakley.

IRELAND’S competitiveness can only be secured by cutting costs across the board by at least 20%, according to the Irish Farmers Association (IFA.

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has warned of worsening global market conditions for all categories of dairy produce lie ahead.

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

IRELAND and 12 other member states have taken on the European Commission, as it bids to accelerate dairy export subsidy cuts towards their promised elimination by 2013.

The Irish Dairy Board has described 2004 as a good year for the Irish dairy sector.

EUROPEAN dairy exporters were hit by refund cutbacks as adverse euro/dollar exchange rates hit returns to farmers.

The Irish Dairy Board has predicted that 2004 will be a tough year for Irish farmers, despite an upturn in the international market.

DISTRUST between dairy farmers and their co-ops has widened with the acceptance by IFA leader John Dillon of a report, compiled by three Munster farmers, which indicates that co-ops retained 15p (19c) per gallon from their profits in 2001.

THE glamour of the horse show might seem far removed from farmers milking their cows at home, but the horses and riders from 10 countries competing in the main arena in Ballsbridge have an important link with the economic well-being of 27,000 dairy farms.