With a milk pool of 1.4 billion litres, turnover of €1.5bn and over 2,500 milk and grain suppliers, Dairygold Co-op is the biggest co-op in Munster.
CEO Michael Harte will speak at Dairy Day on Saturday 14 November at UL Sports Arena at the University of Limerick.
Michael was appointed permanent CEO of Dairygold Co-op in July 2025, having held the interim CEO role for the previous six months.
Michael’s commitment to Dairygold runs deep, having commenced employment at the co-op as a graduate in 1989 and he was appointed chief financial officer in 2006.
In this role, he oversaw the significant investment in Dairygold as the co-op more than trebled output when milk quotas were removed.
Michael is guiding the co-op now through a period of change, as expansion slows and recent investments have been made by the co-op in areas other than core milk processing.
At Dairy Day 2026, Michael will give an overview of the co-op today, its strategy to grow revenues and profit and, ultimately, increase farmer returns.
Michael will address some of the challenges and opportunities facing the dairy sector in Ireland today and give an overview of where he sees milk prices going over the short to medium term.
He will be joined on the panel, which takes place at the Beyond the Parlour stage at 11.30am, by Mike McCully, a dairy market consultant based in the US, who will outline what is happening in the United States dairy market, as well as Daire Cregg, who will report from New Zealand.
Tickets for Dairy Day are available at www.ifj.ie/dairyday.
