With over $ 1bn ($ 1.1 bn) being
invested on dairy farms and over $ 600m ($ 658m) in processing and market capacity, Bord Bia says that the Irish dairy industry will have the fastest growing dairy sector in the world over the next five years.
Ag PACE provides interest buydown
on loans to farmers who
invest in nontraditional agriculture activities that supplement
farm income such as purchase of equipment and facilities, equity shares of an ag - processing business, irrigation equipment, capital improvements to a livestock feedlot,
dairy operation or subsurface field tiling projects.