Like every year, let us use this moment to look back on the past year. When it comes to 2020, it would be no exaggeration to say: what a year! Most of us will be spending the holiday season in a smaller, more intimate setting, under a beautiful tree or around a festively laid table. Like the upcoming holidays, the whole of…
(Brussels, 14/12/2020) The Parliament, the Council and the Commission are currently negotiating the future of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in trilogues. On 23 October 2020, the European Parliament adopted its position on the reform of the Common Market Organisation within the CAP. It includes a number of good…
Study presents data about the organic milk sector
The EMB held its General Assembly on 6 and 7 October in Gembloux, Belgium, under special circumstances, after already having postponed it in April. As is the case every two years, the election of the Executive Committee was on the agenda. We bid farewell to our extremely passionate EMB President Erwin Schöpges, who had been…
European dairy farmers welcome the adoption of new crisis instruments as a first step
Current quarterly figures on milk production costs in Germany published
EMB: The Green Deal cannot become a reality without respect for economic and social sustainability
Not just corrections, but a new orientation. We need a trade policy that ensures fair, cost-covering prices, protects the environment, and upholds human rights.
Production costs of 60.29 cents per kilogram of organic milk and an average organic milk price of 47.40 cents: in other words, cost coverage of only 79 percent. These are the findings of the latest study on the cost of producing organic milk in Germany conducted by the Office for Rural Sociology and Agriculture (BAL, Büro für…
After an interim recovery in the early summer, the Global Dairy Trade Index dipped again this week by 1% (previously by -1.7% and -5.1%). The average price for Italian spot milk fell in August by 2.1% to 34.4 cents per kg as compared to the previous month (-23.2% as compared to August 2019).
The EU-27 milk price also fell in…
