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Dairy farmers face levy following overproduction

  • 15-06-2012 10:01pm
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    EGAR
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    Irish dairy farmers will have to pay a super levy of €16.5m to the EU for producing too much milk last year.


    Individual farmers have been notified by their co-ops


    The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine said this evening that farmers exceeded the national quota by 1.05% in the year ending on 1 April.
    The final calculation of the national position exceeds the earlier estimate by 0.36%, which is a little over one day's production, due mainly to a significantly higher level of butterfat content in milk, which was up 20%.
    Individual farmers have already been notified of their provisional levy by their co-ops.
    Factors such as good weather and growing conditions and continuing improvements in genetics can lead to improvements in butterfat content from year to year.
    In quota year 2011/12, the increased use of once-a-day milking to mitigate super levy bills may have been an additional factor.
    Separately, farmers are being advised to wait for drier weather conditions before attempting to make silage.
    The State farm advisory body, Teagasc, said this afternoon that the silage harvest in most areas of the country has been disrupted by the heavy rainfall over recent days.
    Teagasc nutrition specialist Siobhan Kavanagh said livestock farmers should hold on for better weather before cutting, even if the crop continues to lose quality.

    Source: http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0615/dairy-farmers-face-levy-following-overproduction.html


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