Almost a year ago, EU policymakers decided to award a financial incentive to dairy farmers who voluntarily reduced their production in the fourth quarter of 2016 up to January 2017. This decision contributed significantly to a change in trends on the flooded dairy market.
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The International Pooling Commission of Milk Producers calls on EU policymakers to stop ignoring important aspects of the dairy sector
The dairy market is currently seeing a surprising development: Since the beginning of the year, farm-gate prices paid to dairy farmers have stagnated or are showing only very modest increases, and milk protein is difficult to sell, among other reasons because of the 350,000 tons of milk powder the EU put into storage during the…
The Golden Faironika was awarded to a number of winners – in the “Policymaker” category, this year’s winners were former French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll and Lower Saxony’s Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer
The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is to be reformed by 2020 to be better adjusted to society’s wishes. Since the topic is very important for farmers, I attend the meetings of the Civil Dialogue Group on the Common Agriculture Policy on behalf of EMB.
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Invitation to the conference on 14 June 2017 in Würzburg, Bavaria
(Brussels, 15/05/17) There was too much milk powder in the past and still the milk market cannot cope with it: there are currently some 350,000 tons of skimmed milk powder stored in intervention, and in view of the tense situation in the EU milk market that volume lies as heavy as lead in the stomach. Although at present raw…
Butter is expensive and milk powder is cheap. On this basis, dairies pay low settlement prices that have remained practically unchanged. The price difference between protein and fat is abnormally high and the large EU intervention stock is immediately blamed for the low powder price. Is this correct?
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