Registered Producers/Registered Processors

In the 2022/23 milk year 1,228 registered producers with contracts represented 7% of all milk producers in the State and had annual milk supplies of 815 million litres, which were equivalent to 10% of annual domestic supplies of 8.5 billion litres.

440 million litres or 54% of the annual supplies of registered producers were contracted for supplies for processing for liquid consumption, while 374 million litres or 46% were supplies for manufacturing.

Contracts for all year round supplies comprised 90% of contracts and 99% of supplies while contracts for the winter months only represented 10% of contracts and 1% of supplies.