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Milk price agreement in France
French milk producers obtained, compared to 2009, a milk price increase of 10% for 2010. This increase of the milk price that producers will obtain in the third quarter of 2010 amount to 3,1 cent/litre compared to previous year. This agreement was reached after the major unions in France put pressure on the industry so that the...
German and French Ministries for Agriculture were presented with a list of 10 minimum criteria
Paris / Berlin, 02.09.2010: The European Milk Board (EMB) has presented the Franco-German working group, initiated by the Ministries for Agriculture in Germany and in France, with a list of ten minimum criteria. This list defines the conditions which contracts between milk producers and the dairy industry, have to meet. EMB...
The Swiss show Migros the red card
The Swiss show Migros the red card
On the 27th of July, BIG-M, the Swiss member organisation of the European Milk Board, organised a so-called cattle processsion in Zurich, in order to highlight the unfair dealings in the milk market and to protest against the business practices of MIGROS, one of the biggest retail chains in...
Press Release Common Agricultural Policy concerns all of us!
Instruments for the milk production adapted to the society’s needs.
The conference „CAP post 2013“concluded yesterday in the late afternoon in Brussels. The majority of participants came to the conclusion that a comprehensive reform of the EU
agricultural policy is needed. Representatives of the European Milk Board (EMB)...
Press release: Civil society associations join the debate on the future of agricultural policy- EMB supports the ARC
The conference “CAP post-2013”, organised by European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos, takes place in Brussels on the 19th and 20th of July. The European Milk Board is a member of the Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC), a civil society alliance committed to a paradigm shift in agricultural policy and the...
