DAIRY farmers should consider strengthening the link between milk supplies and shareholding, according to Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) national dairy chairman Kevin Kiersey.

THE Irish Farmers Association yesterday accused some of the country’s main co-ops of a failure to lift their June milk price to 30c/l plus VAT.

A TOTAL of 73 new entrants to dairying have been allocated 14 million litres of milk quota under the New Entrants Scheme.

FARM leaders have stepped up their demands on the European Commission not to release dairy products from intervention stocks onto the market until later in the year at least.

THE proposal by Glanbia Co-op to purchase the Irish business of Glanbia plc will be discussed by the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) at a meeting in Kilkenny on Monday night.

GLANBIA Co-op, which owns 54% of Glanbia plc, has announced its plan to buy the Irish dairy and agri businesses of the plc.

THE dairy industry must deliver viable milk prices to producers, an Irish Farmers Association organised forum was told in Horse and Jockey, Co Tipperary.

KERRY Group should not be allowed to take over the Newmarket Co-op, a Dáil deputy declared yesterday.

FARMERS have resolved their dispute with Glanbia over the prices they are being paid for grain.

PRESSURE has increased on Glanbia to increase the price it pays suppliers for milk as the global dairy markets begin to recover.

DAIRYGOLD Co-op is to increase the price it pays its suppliers for September milk by 1.75c/litre.

A NEW report on the difficulties in the dairy sector indicates a gradual improvement in farm milk prices can be expected.

THE critical dairy market situation is to be discussed at a meeting of European Union agriculture ministers which begins in Luxembourg today and continues tomorrow.

THE first in a series of protests by furious dairy farmers over falling milk prices was held in Dungarvan, Waterford, last night.

THE latest moves by the European Commission to help the dairy industry were welcome but did not go far enough, according to the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society.

THE Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) have reacted differently to the latest results from the milk quota trading scheme.

GLANBIA milk suppliers want the company to pay the top milk price in the country and reverse a 1.5c a litre price cut.

GLANBIA dairy farmers have called on their co-op, at a meeting in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, to pay the top price for milk supplies.

A DECISION on a proposal to increase milk quotas in the EU by 2% from April 2 will be taken at a meeting of agricultural ministers in Brussels on St Patrick’s Day.

A PROPOSAL announced yesterday by the European Commission to increase milk quotas across the EU by 2% from April 1 next would be worth €35 million a year in creamery cheques to Irish dairy farmers on current average prices.

AS the international markets for dairy products continues to firm, Kerry Group announced another increase in the price that it pays farmer suppliers for their milk.

KERRY GROUP yesterday announced a further increase in the price it pays its suppliers for milk as conditions across international dairy markets remained firm.

FARM leaders have welcomed decisions by Dairygold and Connacht Gold to increase the price they pay farmers for milk.

FARM leaders yesterday called on all co-ops to increase the price they pay farmers for milk as a result of continuing buoyant market returns.

EXPORT refunds for whole milk powder were increased by 10% at yesterday’s meeting of the EU Milk Management Committee in Brussels.