Mr. Aaron Forde:

Speaking from an Aurivo point of view, we have farmers on both sides of the Border. I spoke to a farmer in Donegal last week who was as puzzled by the phenomenon as the Deputy is, whereby ten miles over the road there is a farmer who has a completely different mindset in terms of drying off cows, keeping in production and what the Deputy quite aptly terms "treadmill farming". There is a different scale of farm there and there is a different profile of milk production. The farmers have probably plateaued in terms of where they have reached and now there is more of a focus on the cost of production and trying to make more money out of the enterprise.