Current exchange rates are creating difficult conditions for Irish companies exporting milk to the United Kingdom, the European commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan, said in Dublin on Friday 7 September.
Addressing a conference on the 'EU Dairy Outlook', Hogan pointed out that the United Kingdom was naturally a “net importer of cheese and butter from the EU, totalling 480,000 tonnes in 2017”. He spoke of the importance of the British market for Irish cheese producers. Exports...