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Fri 03 Mar 2007Dairy industry must plan for milk quota-free futureGlanbia, the Kilkenny-based co-operative announced "solid" results last Wednesday with cries of derision from dairy farmers who claimed those profits were based on the low milk price they received in 2006.As that argument raged, a major report on the impact of EU dairy policy changes on the Irish dairy industry was published and an international workshop on the subject passed almost unnoticed.