The Department of Agriculture is preparing to roll out a national dairy farmer retirement scheme, the Irish Farmers Journal can reveal.
Options for a retirement package were discussed in detail by the Food Vision Dairy Group this week, with the talks centred around funding mechanisms.
It is understood that a retirement scheme is now more favoured than a cow or volume quota, as was suggested by the Department a number of weeks ago.
The group is due to submit a draft report on the future of the sector to the Minister for Agriculture next week.
There has been a significant shift in focus by the group given the developments around food security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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