EMB Newsletter August online

Dear Dairy Farmers and Interested Parties,

To get straight to the point: we dairy farmers in Europe can be proud of ourselves. Proud of our village communities, proud of our family-run farms, proud of our work as farmers for modern-day society, and primarily of our product, milk.

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Great Britain‘s dairy farmers enjoy the full support of their colleagues throughout Europe

Dairy farmers in Great Britain are manning blockades set up outside milk processing plants in protest against the current series of cuts in milk prices. The European Milk Board unreservedly supports these actions and the demands of the British dairy farmers.

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Dairy farmers demonstrate in Brussels: Milk overflow causing prices to plummet!

Overproduction on the European milk markets is leading to a dramatic fall in milk prices, and is likely to directly precipitate the next milk crisis. Hundreds of dairy farmers attached to the European Milk Board have come to Brussels today to demonstrate in front of the European Parliament building.

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EMB Newsletter July online

Dear Dairy Farmers and Interested Parties,

The crisis in the European milk market is back. That is the situation we are experiencing first hand and which is evident from a glance at neighbouring farms. How long the crisis will last and when prices will bottom out is anyone’s guess.

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EMB Newsletter June online

Dear Dairy Farmers and Interested Parties,

There is growing concern amongst Irish dairy farmers regarding the direction of milk price in 2012.  The majority of milk processors cut milk price by 3 cents per litre for April and are now strongly signalling further reductions in the coming months. 

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