Dairy
The Voluntary Milk Reduction Scheme will not be made mandatory in the future, the Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan has said.
Details of how Irish dairy farmers can apply for the EU voluntary milk supply management scheme were recently agreed in Brussels.
The French Government has provided extra funding to incentivise its dairy farmers to cut milk production in the coming months.
Farmers who fail to reduce milk production for the full amount offered (14c/L) under the EU's Voluntary Milk Reduction Scheme will be penalised.
More detail of the EU's new Milk Supply Reduction Scheme has emerged this week.
