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Demo in Switzerland: “No more milk sleaze!”
Yesterday (27.4.) the farmers’ organisation Uniterre carried out a symbolic demonstration with “ghost busters” outside the head office of the Swiss milk producer organisation SMP. “With its current composition the SMP producer organisation is incapable of fulfilling its duty of representing dairy farmers in the milk market. We...
Only 77 per cent of production costs in the German dairy sector covered by the farm-gate price
(Brussels, 18.04.2017) As shown by the latest cost study drawn up by the German Office for Agriculture and Agricultural Sociology (Büro für Agrarsoziologie & Landwirtschaft, BAL), in January 2017 the average price of 33.76 cents for a kilo of milk covered only 77 per cent of the costs (43.74 cents). The study,...
Newsletter April online!
In Spring 2016, there were many challenges facing the Irish agri-food sector - particularly the dairy sector - but a threat to our single largest export market wasn’t one of them. One year later, that threat is a reality and much of our government’s planning and policymaking takes place in the shadow cast by ‘Brexit’. ...
"EU volume reduction programme has proven itself"
Milk producers from all parts of Europe see voluntary production cuts as an important instrument for the future and demand that it be included in a permanent crisis mechanism
Newsletter March online!
It is no secret that the EU Common Agricultural Policy is in need of reform. The last few years have shown that we urgently need sustainable, responsible agricultural production. And yes, it is true: the first small steps in this direction have been taken in the dairy sector. Read more
