Brussels, 14th March 2013
Yesterday in the Strasbourg plenary session the members of the European Parliament voted on the reform of the EU's common organisation of agricultural markets. Despite the strong opposition of the dairy industry and some farmers' unions the introduction of voluntary production cuts prevailed. The…
Brussels, 24 January 2013
Yesterday the members of the European Parliament's Agricultural Committee voted on the report on the reform of the Common organisation of agricultural markets in the EU. The Committee voted in favour of proposals such as the introduction of a voluntary supply constraint mechanism or the setting up of…
A scientific study jointly presented by the MEG Milch Board and the EMB shows production costs in the dairy sector, to be updated quarterly.
Berlin, 17.1.2013
It had been long overdue: a reliable, ongoing calculation of production costs in the dairy sector. One that takes into account the working hours of the farm managers…
The packaging design of the “d’fair Mëllech” brand Luxemburg came a proud second place in the awarding of the Austrian Caesar Prize for Advertising 2012 in the “Packaging” category.
The Caesar Prize 2012 award ceremony was held in Linz on 22 November. Berthe Elsen, Member of the Board of Fairkooperativ Letzebuerg, accepted the…
At the conference on European dairy policy organised by the Confédération Paysanne and the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), the ECVC, the EMB (European Milk Board) and FFE (Fairness for Farmers in Europe) issued the following statement:
- Farmers do not want to produce more for less.
- A healthy dairy economy…
Commissioner Dacian Ciolos is present when milk producers commemorate 157.000 closures of farms since 2009.
(Brussels, 27.11.2012) More than 3500 milk producers are demonstrating since yesterday with about 1000 tractors outside the European Parliament. Today they commemorated their more than 157.000 colleagues who had to…
NGOs from Belgium and many African farmers’ organisations, affected by milk export, mobilised in order to support the legitimate demands of dairy farmers in their milk strike. Defending fair and profitable prices was and still is a legitimate and justified demand.
By abolishing milk quotas, the European Union has decided to…
About 2500 dairy farmers of the European Milk Board, as well as of supporting organisations are protesting today and tomorrow at the European Parliament with about 1000 tractors .
The milk market is on fire. This is why milk producers from all over Europe came to Brussels to call attention to their unbearable situation and symbolically put out the fire on the milk markets. For a long time, milk prices have not been able to cover production costs and thousands of dairy farmers were already obliged to give…
The milk market is on fire. European milk producers are facing a dramatic situation. For too long milk prices do not cover the costs of production and thousands of milk producers had to give up already.
Dairy farmers from all over Europe demonstrate on 26 and 27 November 2012 in Brussels and organise spectacular actions to…
