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Monday 27 March 2023 Dublin: -4°C

# Milk quotas

All time
# Powdered Milk
Kerrygold is opening up a new factory... in Nigeria
Powdered milk will exported to and packaged at the facility in Lagos.
# The briefcase
Here's everything you need to know about business this week
Everyone was talking about Dunnes strikes, a big plan for Longford and a Celtic Tiger phoenix.
# Dairy
Without milk quotas, what will happen to the price of a pint of milk?
It’s largely positive news for farmers.
# notions
The Irish Dairy Board is getting fierce fancy
It comes on the eve of EU milk quotas being scrapped.
# annus milkus
These babies helped Enda Kenny declare 2015 'the year of rural recovery'
Wasn’t it the year of something else already?
# moooooo
Got milk? Ireland's cows will be giving us a LOT more of the white stuff
Fifty-two high-skill jobs are expected to be created over the five years.
# WHITE GOLD
The cows are going to be very busy in Cork. Up to 60% busier, in fact
Dairygold will add 115 jobs and boost production 60% after EU dairy quotas end.
# SOCIAL LIFE
'There’s much more to Macra than farming'
It’s a club that boasts about 8,000 members throughout the country, but what is Macra na Feirme and why do people join?
# udder disgrace
Coveney to dairy farmers: You're (still) producing too much milk
Ireland’s volume of milk supplies in January was above what is allowed under EU quotas.
# Got milk?
Coveney tells farmers: You're producing too much milk
Ireland’s milk producers are on course to exceed their quota for this year which will result in a multi-million euro fine.
# Jobswatch
Glanbia in €157 million investment for major new dairy facility
The company said the state-supported investment will create 1600 direct and indirect roles.