(Berchtesgaden, 12th April 2013) A major tractor convoy will close the three-day demonstration of milk producers and concerned citizens from all over Europe in the Southern German town of Berchtesgaden today. Around 750 milk producers of the European Milk Board (EMB), the association representing milk producer organisations in Europe, had taken the meeting of Germany’s Ministers for Agriculture as an opportunity to show their disagreement with the milk policy of the German government. Their motto: "organising markets rather than managing crises".

The organisers of the demonstration from the German EMB member organisation BDM had set up an impressive three-day programme. The first evening a farmers' conference on the subject “Agricultural policy for a rural, sustainable agriculture” was held. The second day, at a major demonstration, the farmers called for political decision-makers to finally fulfil their responsibilities for the European dairy market. In order to underline their call, the participants of the demonstration handed over a manifesto with their demands to the Ministers for Agriculture. Today, the demonstration will end with a tractor convoy. The tractors will drive to the meeting venue in order to symbolically go and fetch correct meeting results for European dairy farmers.