France: The profession of dairy farmers (in french)

<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich courrier_des_lecteurs.jpg download file>The profession of dairy farmers

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France: Segré, Nord-Anjou (in french)

<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich download file>Milk: Independant producers at "Expo-Parc" in Segré, Nord-Anjou, France

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Eight EU-members are against the increase of the quota

The German agricultural minister Ilse Aigner continues to prevent an increase of the quota. She has sent a letter with seven colleguages to the EU-commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel geschrieben. The other countries are: Austria, France, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Slowakia, Slovenia.

<link fileadmin dokumente press_release deutschland august_-_dezember download file> letter to the commission in German

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France: Press article about strike atmosphere

article of LE PROGRES (in french)

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Germany: BDM - dairy farmers will help themselves

(Freising) The situation on the milk market and the slow reaction of politicians has been the reason the BDM has developed a draft to decrease the pressure on the market. This draft adresses producers, dairy and politics to the same degree. It is a voluntarily obligating reduction of volume with financial compensation (FMS). In…

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France: Report of the dairy organisation APLI about a milk tasting and their contact with consumers

at a Jazz festival in MARCIAC, France

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USA: Hearings concerning milk price crisis

The milk price crisis does not end at the European frontiers. It is a world wide crisis. Also in the United States of America farmers are confronted with the taugh consequences of the low prices. In July several hearings an the House Committee on Agriculture took place in order to discuss the crisis and possible solutions.

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France: Table of Prices Danone

<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich danone.jpg download file>Farm gate milk price 2009, dairy Danone in France

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Spain: MANIFEST AGAINST THE NEW CONTRACT BETWEEN FARMERS’ AND INDUSTRY

Last 20th of July, the interprofessional dairy association (which is formed by unions, industry, administration and distribution) made a decision: they signed a document, which is a contract between farmer and industry. In that contract it is very clear that Spanish farmer will receive a medium milk price 0,30-0,31 euros/litre,…

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Press release: Persisting with freeze response – Liberalisation seems more important than the livelihood of dairy farms

The EU Commission’s Report on the Milk Market contains not one single measure of its own

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