‘Milk supply drop costs rural Ireland €370m in just four months’
IFA Dairy chair Stephen Arthur called on milk processors to increase the price paid to their dairy farmers to compensate for the lost supplies. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images)
The slump in milk production so far this year has cost the rural economy an estimated €370m.
It comes as the CSO last week reported another fall in April milk production, down 81 million litres (-7.9pc) when compared with April 2023 and down 107.6 million litres (-10.2pc) when compared with the same month in 2022.
