Opinion
The European Commission is telling the world that its milk reduction scheme has worked. So why not play Brussels at its own game?
Dairy
An Irish proposal to further extend superlevy payments has been shot down in Europe due to legal problems.
There have been calls in Europe this week for the introduction of mandatory milk supply reduction if cuts proposed by the European Commission don't work.
Milk quotas were introduced by the European Commission in 1984 to try and address the oversupply of milk on the EU market.
A major survey on the dairy industry in Ireland and farmers expansion plans is being undertaken by the University of Limerick.
The Irish Co-operative Society will oppose any attempts to reintroduce milk quotas by the back door in the EU, according to its Agri and Food Policy Executive, Eamon Farrell.
