As newly elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Milk Board, I would like to draw your attention in my editorial on current issues in Ireland. Angers mounts as Ireland’s biggest Co-op underpays on May milk price.
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Large parts of Europe have experienced major losses due to the continued heatwave. After a wet spring in countries like Ireland, the United Kingdom and France, the dry weather is now negatively affecting pastures, hay and silage production as well as cereal and straw production. As a consequence of the drought, milk producers…
It's a pleasant surprise when EU policy-makers propose positive developments: At the end of May, the European Parliament voted in favour of the report by Italian MEP Herbert Dorfmann on the 'Future of Food and Farming' and thus presented the Commission with a clear direction for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
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EU Agriculture Council should decide to use milk powder from intervention as animal feed
European Fair Milk Conference honours responsible commitment in agricultural sector
Invitation to the conference on 14 June 2018 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq near Lille, France
(Brussels, 01.06.2018) Even in 2018, an appeal on World Milk Day for fairness in the dairy sector is not excessive but is, in fact, the need of the day! After all, fair prices are especially important for us milk producers in the EU as well as for our colleagues on other continents.
Fairness for colleagues from African…
The Federal Government must turn away from this cheap export-import strategy. The AbL calls for a quality offensive.
A new Executive Committee has been at the helm of the European Milk Board since mid-April 2018. In a very moving Members' Assembly, Romuald Schaber, founder and President of the European Milk Board, was bid farewell after serving for twelve years. John Comer as well stepped down after six years of committed work.
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Is the EU progressive enough to properly engineer stabilisation of farmers’ income?
