Teagasc plans to establish a ‘Food Innovation Hub’, built on the concept of the Wageningen Food Valley in the Netherlands, but applied to the food industry in and around Cork.

With up to 2.5 billion extra litres of milk to process in 2020, the Irish dairy industry will need as many processing outlets for that milk as possible, says Stephen Cadogan.

A €25m dairy industry initiative to maximise the abolition of the EU milk quota system was launched yesterday.