Ireland is ideally placed to develop Europe’s first dairy sector futures and options index, creating a model for EU-wide adoption, agri-food industry leaders have claimed.

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Farmers can sell futures contracts at the start of the season, to protect themselves against the future market values of their commodities fluctuating due to supply and demand changes.

Feedback from people who attended Monday’s CIT seminar on future milk price volatility management mechanisms was broadly positive, both from farmers and from the event’s organisers.