At last, organic milk producers in Ireland can finally expand.
Additional quota of 45,000 litres have been made available to them, which could result in up to 750,000 more litres of organic milk being produced in the current milk quota year.
Organic dairy farmers who want to download the form, click here
(for those of you who don't know what any of the quota talk means, essentially organic milk producers were debarred from expanding their enterprises becuase of the historic overproduction of commodities like milk in the EU. It may seem mad in a food shortages world, but its a legacy from the post war period in EU policy and the subsequent food and drink mountains days.)
The Greens, and Trevor Sargent in particular, said they would deliver this sort of action. It seems they are making good on it.
For more, see here
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