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Agri Aware and the National Dairy Council are delighted to launch its Legen-Dairy initiative seeking to dispel common myths about Irish dairy and dairy consumption with the new campaign centred around a survey*.   The survey’s calls on third level students in colleges across the country to engage with the Legen-Dairy survey and for those […]

The National Dairy Council (NDC) is delighted to launch a special competition to design the organisation’s 2024 Christmas Card. The competition is open to all school children and the most appealing card will be used as NDC’s corporate greeting card and will be sent out to thousands of people in the Agri food sector and […]

An Taoiseach tells popular podcast [1]: “We need the farms to continue. We need people to continue to produce food.” Research [2] shows lack of consumer understanding about agriculture’s environmental impacts and the need to improve them Only 4% of teenagers are eating recommended three portions of dairy each day.   Following comments by An […]

The National Dairy Council are once again a headline sponsor at this year’s Irish Farmers Journal Dairy Day, taking place in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Thursday 21st November 2024. The NDC are celebrating 60 years this year, and will be highlighting the work of the farmer-funded marketing agency at Dairy Day, taking part in panel […]

The National Dairy Council (NDC) is delighted to announce sponsorship of the Dairy Producer of the Year award at this year’s Good Food Ireland Awards which takes place on Monday 11th November.  Irish Dairy which is revered all over the world also goes into making amazing products like yogurt, cheese, ice cream and countless other […]

The National Dairy Council (NDC) has joined forces with the experts at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital to highlight the importance of bone health on World Osteoporosis Day, Sunday 20th October.     Did you know the most common bone condition in Ireland is osteoporosis, with approximately 300,000 people over 50 years estimated to have the […]

As the recognized global voice of dairy and the leading source of expertise and scientific knowledge, the International Dairy Federation (IDF) has taken the initiative in developing a declaration to reiterate and reinforce the dairy sector’s commitment to a sustainable transformation of the whole value chain. This document was presented at the end of the […]

The National Dairy Council (NDC) is thrilled to announce that Majella McCafferty, Farm Advocacy Manager at NDC, has been selected as one of only four Irish participants in the prestigious 2025 Nuffield Ireland Scholars Program. This highly competitive program is designed to develop world-class leaders in the agri-food sector, with scholars recognized for their outstanding […]

To celebrate World School Milk Day on the 25th of September, the National Dairy Council (NDC) is delighted to announce it will run a webinar which will teach school children across Ireland the benefits of drinking school milk. The aim of World School Milk Day is to highlight the importance of milk in providing essential […]

The National Dairy Council (NDC) is delighted to announce the appointment of Emma Walls as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Emma has spent the last 16 years working with organic dairy producer, Glenisk as Commercial Director.   Walls began her career with Wilson Hartnell Public Relations and later ran her own communications consultancy specialising in food […]

Visit https://ndc.ie/yogurt-its-great-inside/ for more information.   The National Dairy Council is delighted to announce the launch of a new EU-funded campaign to promote yogurt. The three-year campaign will be run across four markets – Belgium, Ireland, Germany, and Denmark, and will promote the health and versatility of yogurt as a delicious everyday food.   The […]

As schoolchildren all over Ireland prepare to go back to School in a few weeks’ time, our thoughts turn to feeding kids during the long school day. The Government’s hot school meals programme, which aims to provide a free hot lunch to all primary schoolchildren by 2030, was rolled out to 1,400 schools in a […]