What does the future hold for European dairy farmers in the aftermath of COVID-19? We certainly knew that we would be dealing with a European dairy market that is completely different from that of reference year 2019. This crisis has shown yet again that implementing the EMB’s <link en special-content market-responsibility-programme.html _blank external-link-new-window external link in new>Market Responsibility Programme is the only way…
Their appeal to EU Agriculture Ministers: “Don’t forget the social aspects of sustainability!
Invitation to press breakfast and demonstration
Over the last few days and weeks, many have added their voices to the chorus of those who see a recovery on the milk market. If you were to listen to dairies and processors, you would think that everything is back on track. Farmers’ associations, retailers and a broad range of policy-makers are singing along to this hopeful…
(Brussels, 15/07/20) The latest results of the study on milk production costs in Germany show a clear shortfall of costs, with milk producers missing 30% to cover their cost of production. Current figures of April 2020 show that the cost of production amounts to 46.76 ct/kg, whereas the farm-gate milk price was only 32.68 ct/kg…
On 20 May, the European Commission published its ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy. For us farmers, this strategy represents a ‘last chance’ to rebalance the food supply chain – to preserve what’s left of the EU’s family farm system and wrest back control and direction of the EU’s food supply chain from the retail corporations who…
Farm to Fork Strategy must be further improved
For European milk producers, the impact of the coronavirus of the past weeks now coincides with peak milk production in spring.
Below you will find information on the extent to which the European Commission's political measures are being used in the Member States as well as an overview of the current situation in Belgium,…
Today the world is governed by fear. The fact that we all live in fear is, among other things, a direct conse-quence of how "we" decided some decades ago that the way forward would be globalisation: we have interwoven our economic flows to the greatest possible extent. We thought it would be beneficial to all of us. For the…
