Dairy farmers are expressing concern after recent milk price cuts by Lidl, Aldi, and Tesco.<\/p>\n
They say the reductions come at a difficult time, with production costs continuing to rise.<\/p>\n
Farmers are warning repeated price cuts could create financial strain and instability in the sector.<\/p>\n
Monaghan Dairy Farmer, Martin McElearney said that the supermarkets have taken away any chance milk producers have of making a profit.<\/p>\n
Mr. McElearney is the IFA\u2019s National Dairy chair.<\/p>\n
He said that since 2020, the registered number of liquid milk producers has fell by 15%.<\/p>\n
In response to the price cuts, Mr. McElearney called for consumers to purchase farmers own brands.<\/p>\n
He said: “Farmers are the consumer as well. We hit all the other cost of living crises, we experience all them things as well.<\/p>\n
“If consumers want fresh milk on their table 365 days a year, they should prioritise having farmer own brands on their table, such as our own Champion here in Cavan-Monaghan.<\/p>\n
“Believe it or not, only 40% of the retail price the consumer pays for a drum of milk comes back to the farmer, ” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dairy farmers are expressing concern after recent milk price cuts by Lidl, Aldi, and Tesco. They say the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,9603],"class_list":{"0":"post-79265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-milk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}