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Newsletter March online!
Together with my fellow Executive Committee members from Belgium, France and the Nether-lands, I recently participated in an interesting meeting with EU Agriculture Commissioner Wojciechowski. Our first impression is promising.
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Farmers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia protest in Brussels to demand a fair agricultural policy
Baltic farmers call on the EU to implement uniform direct payments for all. The European Milk Board also calls on all EU Institutions to support the inclusion of an effective crisis instrument in the CAP.
Baltic milk producers and EMB call on heads of state and government to establish fair agricultural policy
Invitation to milk producer rally on 20 February 2020 in Brussels
Newsletter February online!
At their press conference at the International Green Week in Berlin, the EMB Executive Committee presented solutions for environmentally just and socio-economically sustainable milk production in the EU. The fact of the matter is that dairy farmers must rise to an ever-increasing number of demands, while they receive no economic…
How can EU milk production be climate-friendly as well as socially and economically sustainable?
(Berlin, 16/01/2020) The fact that the reality of being a farmer has been very difficult for a number of years now is no secret. For example, there is a systematic shortfall between milk production costs and producer prices. Over a five-year periodtypo3/#_ftn1, the cost shortfall for German producers has been 20 percent, which implies that…
German milk production costs amount to 43.71 ct/kg in October 2019 as opposed to a price of only 34.23 ct/kg
(Brussels, 15.01.2020) The current calculation of German milk production costs shows that in October 2019 only 78% of these costs were covered. According to the quarterly figures published by the Farm Economics and Rural Studies Office (BAL), production costs amounted to 43.71 ct/kg in October 2019, whereas the farm-gate milk…
Newsletter January online!
Never start to quit, never quit starting! We begin the new year with these thoughts by Roman philosopher Cicero. We push on. We are going to continue our political engagement for a healthy dairy market. And we will run our farms back home on the basis of a solid economic foundation.
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How can EU milk production be climate-friendly as well as socially and economically sustainable?
Invitation to a press conference on 16 January 2020 at the International Green Week in Berlin
EMB 2019: year in review
An eventful year is coming to an end. We at the EMB wish to take this opportunity to thank you all for the important work you have done over the last 12 months



