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Press release: EU Commission report on milk market shows need for further action – Member States' Agriculture Ministers still disagree
(Brussels, 18th June 2014) Last Friday, 13th June the European Commission published its new report on the situation of the milk market.
On one hand, it describes the overall positive development of supply and of the market as a whole. This applies to developments on the short and on the medium term for both the EU and the…
Press release: New results: milk price does still not cover production costs
(Brussels, 2nd June 2014) According to the new results of the study on production costs carried out by the German office BAL (Büro für Agrarsoziologie & Landwirtschaft), the cost of production in Germany in January 2014 amounted to 45,16 ct/kg. With a milk price of 41,46 ct/kg, these new results reveal a shortfall of about 4…
Press release: EMB rejects TTIP agreement
(Brussels, 22 May 2014): “The negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – the TTIP – are causing the European Milk Board (EMB) great concern. “The agreement is a severe threat to the EU – economically, ecologically and socially”, is how Romuald Schaber, President of the EMB, summarises the position of…
Press release: New study results reveal shortfall in milk production
(Brussels, 3rd March 2014) The new results of the cost study carried out by the German Office for Agriculture and Agricultural Sociology BAL show that the average price paid to dairy farmers in Germany in October 2013, i.e. 41,92 cents/kg, does not cover production costs. For the same period, production costs amounted to 44,12…
Press release (German): „Schwarzer-Peter-Spiel“ hilft den Milchviehhaltern nicht
Please find here a Press release of the Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter e.V. (BDM) in German:
Schwarzer-Peter-Spiel“ hilft den Milchviehhaltern nicht
(Freising) In der Diskussion um die aktuellen Preissenkungen der Discounter im Milch- und Fleischbereich machen es sich nach Ansicht des Bundesverbands Deutscher…
Press release: Large deficit in French dairy sector
New study on milk production costs in France shows: milk prices do not cover production costs
Stage play in Belgium: Feeding humankind, that is a job
To make the general public aware of the decline in family farming, the Belgian theatre group Art & Tça staged the play “Feeding humankind, that is a job” at the National Theater in Brussels. What is special about this play is that it combines elements of a classical play with a documentary film. For it the two leading actors…
Press release: Great interest in International Pooling Commission of dairy farmers in Karow
(Karow,25 February 2014) Today the International Pooling Commission presented its work to German dairy farmers in Karow.
Please download below the Press release as pdf version
EU-US free trade agreement of no benefit to dairy farmers
The news everywhere in the media at the moment is that the EU and the USA are currently negotiating a transatlantic free trade agreement. In times of severe economic crises in many EU member states, the EU Commission is expecting from it a boost for growth and new jobs in Europe.
What may be good for sectors of the…
