Milk quota transfer proposal is hard to credit

I WISH to protest at the recent proposal by the Department of Agriculture for the transfer of milk quotas.

This is the second proposal this year. The first, by Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan, was designed to speed up the movement of milk quota to young farmers by selling quota through the marts and auctioneers and by land-leasing.

This was widely welcomed by older farmers and small quota-holders as it would give them the true market value for milk quota.