Warning – 2014 may not be milk industry bonanza  Mixed messages
for milk producers as expert warns of short-term surplus.
Picture: Getty     • by Andrew Arbuckle  Milk producers who had
only hours earlier been optimistic over the predicted long-term
high demand for their produce were given a cold shower of
reality yesterday, with milk industry analyst Ian Potter
predicting they would first have to weather a short-term surplus
of milk in the UK.  Speaking at the same conference in Glasgow
where UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson had on Monday for
increased output to meet a rising world demand for more milk
products, Potter pointed out they could face more immediate
problems this coming spring.  He said the Irish, who have long
stated their ambition to increase their milk production by 50
per cent by 2020, were not waiting for the removal of quotas in
2015 before they started their expansion. There were already an
additional 24,000 dairy cows in Ireland as their milk producers
expanded.  “The Irish train is