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Dairy
Co-ops can't do much on milk price volatility - Lakeland CEO
Noel Bardon
The dependence of grass-based dairying on the weather leaves Ireland's dairy sector inherently exposed to risk, Lakeland's CEO said.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Variable incomes
The original CAP, with its guaranteed intervention prices and export refunds, was designed to prevent severe fluctuations.
23 October 2024 News
Galvin sets out his ambitions for finding more value in Kerrygold
The CEO of Ornua, appointed earlier this year, outlines his vision for the co-op to Lorcan Roche Kelly.
Dempsey at Large: budget - a watershed
The second key announcement was the €30m to be given as a top-up to tillage farmers on crops planted for the 2024 (this year's) harvest.
9 October 2024 Viewpoints
Commitment to farm income stability ‘step in right direction’ - ICOS
The society is responding to Minister for Finance Jack Chambers’ announcement that the Government will work with the Department of Agriculture to combat income volatility in time for Budget 2026.
1 October 2024 News
Government ‘did not deliver’ measures against farm income volatility - ICMSA
The ICMSA has been responding to the announcements made in Budget 2025 and has welcomed the extension to a number of reliefs to 2027.
1 October 2024 News
Individual farmers ‘simply cannot handle’ 2023’s levels of volatility - IFA
The wider agricultural sector must shoulder some of the volatility and pressure on margins currently felt by farmers, the IFA's president has said.
30 August 2024 News
Dempsey at Large: How much volatility as a farmer can you cope with?
Theoretically, what happens to US wheat prices should have very little effect on us but that’s not true as these are the prices which set the tone for the prices at which feedstuffs come into Ireland.
21 August 2024 Viewpoints