Analysis: Dairy must address animal welfare critics or consumers could quit milk
There is a danger that the dairy sector could become a victim of its own success
Darragh McCullough
It is not so long ago that milking 100 cows was the ultimate goal for the ambitious Irish dairy farmer.
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