Milk Quota: ‘If you’re going into dairy, you’d want to love it’

One of the country’s largest milk producers believes it could be years before we really know the effects of dropping the milk quota, writes Noel Baker

Every morning, at the crack of dawn or even before, milking begins on the Browne farm near Youghal in East Cork. All three hours of it.

The numbers of cattle here are mind-boggling. Some 850 cows are milked every morning, with another three-hour shift in the evening.