Recent figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have shown that Irish milk production fell by 3.1% in July compared to the same month last year.
Estimates show that domestic milk intake equalled 848.5 million litres compared to 874.8 million litres in July of last year.
Comparing the figures from the same months showed that sales of milk for human consumption decreased by 2.4% to 43.8 million litres.
The CSO figures also showed that the production of butter decreased by 3.9%.
