date:Nov 22, 2012
r 900 million, within the Irish dairy industry. The achievement of Food Harvest 2020 targets will result in increased milk sales, increased calf sales and increased cull cow sales, which could increase annual net revenue at farm level by of the order of 820 million, depending on milk and beef prices.
However, he warned that the most important feature of expansion for all individual farmers is that the increased herd size and milk output generates higher profits than before expansion, otherwise