Darragh McCullough: Red tape and costs make it hard to pasteurise your own milk, but selling another farmer’s supply has been a big hit
Darragh McCullough on his farm in Co Meath
Another week, another idea. Last year I started investigating what it would take to start selling milk from the dairy herd on the farm here in our farm shop.
Bottom line: a tonne of money, a load of hassle and a mountain of paperwork. Regular readers might remember the 250 pages of forms and regulations I was drowning in when I first enquired with the Department of Agriculture about selling our own milk. Even if it was only 50-100 litres of milk a week.
