Milk price could fall further without more co-op supports
Irish dairy farmers, in cost of production terms, are among the most efficient in the world.
Kevin Bellamy
The rest of the world's dairy farmers are blaming the Irish (and perhaps the Dutch) for the critically low prices they are suffering.
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