Fellow milk producers,

The situation is now drastic for all of us. Milk prices are rock-bottom; dairy farmers are being brutally deprived of their livelihood throughout Europe.

The politicians are ruining dairy farmers

The politicians, too, have now grasped that the milk market is in a total mess and the whole of Europe is up in arms. The Ministers of Agriculture of the 28 EU member states have convened an extraordinary Council meeting for 7 September in Brussels to discuss solutions for the dairy sector.Yet to prevent the outcome being just empty words and for the Ministers of Agriculture to now finally adopt the solutions urgently required for the milk market, the dairy farmers of Europe must make themselves heard in Brussels.

Our demands:

- Cost-covering milk prices and our crisis instrument, the Market Responsibility Programme (MRP), now!

- The money raised from the super levy must immediately fund voluntary production cuts to reduce the volume of milk!

A big demonstration is planned outside the building in which the Ministers of Agriculture will be meeting. The idea is for dairy farmers from all over Europe and loads of tractors to give the ministers a graphic lasting reminder of the atrocious results of their milk policy.

The ball is now in the politicians’ court! The more dairy farmers that turn up in Brussels in the morning of 7 September, the more evident it will be that European milk producers are united and that the politicians must act now.

We need you in Brussels on 7 September! Stand shoulder to shoulder with your fellow farmers from other countries and demand an end to this destructive milk policy!

Together let us fight for our farms!

Romuald Schaber, President of the EMB

Details of demonstration on 7 September:

• Meet in the morning at Justus Lipsius building (Rue de la Loi 175, B-1048 Brussels)
• Big demonstration starts about 11:30 hours

More detailed information to follow shortly!

Please see the call for action here.