This a pointless exercise without mandatory price reporting and transparency, it's the same as asking someone if they are speeding when there is no speed limit in place!

Great news, let's see the same for dairy farmers!

🤨 Who Really Controls Milk Prices?

🌎 Companies that own brands purchasing #dairy products wield significant influence over what farmers are paid.

🥛 Milk is processed into various different products: skim milk powder, whole milk powder, cheese 🧀, whey etc. but once it leaves…

📻 Our CEO, Diarmaid Mac Colgáin joins Sari Houlihan on Radio Kerry's #Agritime on Thursday sharing the latest on the dairy markets.

🙌 Tune in if you have questions about milk prices 🥛 and want to know what we’re seeing with the dairy markets 🌎

📲 Download the free ConceptDairy™…

Looks like milk production is moving East to 'less #sustainability focused' countries. The new Royal A-ware #cheddar plant planned for #estonia looks like a good move!

The numbers don't lie, #irish #milk #production down 16.7% for February based on EU Agriculture🌱 data, hopefully we'll see an increase in March and over the flush. The real question is what is going to happen to the additional milk processing capacity and who's going to pay for it?

Irish milk production down 16.7% according to EU Agriculture🌱 figures

🧐 Ever wonder how milk prices are determined? And just how much control does your processor have over them? 🥛

🌍 Milk Prices are influenced by global markets.

🇮🇪 From an Irish perspective, processors actually don't have much control over milk prices.

➡️ Since 🇮🇪 we export…

🚀Exciting News! We've been chosen for Innovate UK's Scaling Out For Impact (SOFI) programme! 🇿🇦

The #SOFI2 programme aims to offer wide-ranging, affordable, innovative solutions to improve the accessibility of water, energy, & food in South African townships.

We're introducing…

📣 Have you heard about Kerry's latest brand? They've launched Smug, a blend of oat & dairy, which they say gives consumers a more sustainable way of consuming #dairy .

But let's chat about the bigger picture – how does this affect our #DairyFarmers ? 🐄💡 Could there be…

We are looking for people to come join our team for the upcoming calving season. Please forward to anyone you think would be interested or retweet. 🐄☘️🌱

A new fairlife production facility broke ground in the Western New York town of Webster, New York. The $650 million dollar investment will bring 250 jobs to the area, and will be the largest dairy production facility in the northeast once construction is complete. Empire State…

The Board of Carbery has agreed a 5cpl support payment for farmer shareholders on March milk supplied, to ease pressure from recent bad weather. This is in addition to other relief measures from Coops. March base milk price has also increased. Details ⬇️
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🍫 Cadbury UK White #Chocolate Buttons Vs Nestlé's Milkybar 🍫 Worried about #PalmOil ? ⭐️Opt for Cadbury White Chocolate Buttons as it contains ✅ No Palm Oil 🙌

📣 Hey #Cadbury , let's extend this to the Dairy Milk range in the UK & Ireland! You're doing it in Australia &…

In Ireland 🇮🇪 , we’ve seen the prices for this season drop about 5c\L. So what does this really mean? If you're milking 100 cows 🐄, producing 5000 litre per animal, that's a €25,000 drop in income 😬

🙌 Farmers, ask your dairy processors when are they going to start giving you…

📰 Have you seen Fonterra’s press release? Under the FTA they've contracted 10K tonnes of product. What impact will this have on English & Irish #cheese 🧀?

Kudos to #Fonterra for being the original leaders in price transparency with the GDT auction 🙌! But it's time for more…

📰 Have you seen Fonterra’s press release? Under the FTA they've contracted 10K tonnes of product. What impact will this have on English & Irish #cheese 🧀?
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Kudos to #Fonterra for being the original leaders in price transparency with the GDT auction 🙌!…

🐄📣 Calling all #DairyFarmers to help us with our #poll ! We'd love to hear from you! Thanks a million 🙏

⁉️ Are you planning on leaving the #dairy sector in the next 2 years?

📰 👀 Irish Farmers Journal ‘Not enough #milk & too much capacity means co-ops face another difficult year.’ We have been talking about this for the last year!

🏭 What impact will this have on you #dairyfarmers ? Is your processor protecting you from risk?

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In case you missed this month's 'Milk Price Monthly', you can listen now to Diarmaid Mac Colgáin of ConceptDairy™ and Ian Harvey of the NFU Dairy committee discuss the factors in milk price negotiations.

Watch the full episode for FREE here: agriinsider.tv/programs/conce…