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Friesland Campina: 10 euro cents on top of the European milk reduction of 14 euro cents
As from 1 October 2016, FrieslandCampina will pay its member dairy farmers 10 euro cents per not produced kilo of milk for a period of six months. This measure comes on top of the recently announced European incentive for reducing the milk production. With this measure FrieslandCampina aims at a reduction of a total of 150...
Newsletter September online!
The National Association of Danish Dairy Farmers (LDM) welcomes the fact that the EU has adopted a reduction scheme for milk production in the EU. Unfortunately, only a part of the total package has been earmarked for volume reduction. Read more
Shift of direction of EU milk policy: milk volumes to be cut
EU measures for voluntary production cuts in place
Canadian National Farmers Union suggests Hogan supply management system
The president of the Canadian NFU has written to the EU's agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan: Jan Slomp encourages Hogan to adopt a Canadian-style supply management system in order to end the European dairy crisis. Letter on dairy crisis sent to Commissioner Hogan (July 22)
Dairy farmers' protests in Europe
England: Dairy farmers blockade Müller site over milk price freeze About 80 farmers have joined the blockade of the Müller site in Shropshire on August 7, organised by Farmers For Action. The action was prompted by Müller’s announcement to hold its standard non-aligned liquid milk price for September at about 18p/litre (ca....
Newsletter August online!
As we go deeper and deeper into the crisis, we can see that it is crucial to really do something about the oversupply of milk that is putting so much pressure on the prices. To those who say that such a policy signifies a lack of confidence in the post-quota EU dairy sector, I would make one simple point: it’s high time...
