The member organisation of the EMB and the milk producers in France remain very active and have organised and attended several events in recent weeks.
On September 13th and 14th the agricultural SPACE took place in Rennes in Western France. Members of APLI and OPL as well as a delegation of the EMB attended the show.
On…
„Change tack and support a fair agricultural sector”
Strasbourg, October 20th, 2010
Many more than 1000 milk producers from many European countries came to Strasbourg with about two hundred fifty tractors to encourage the EU parliament to initiate a change of direction in the agricultural policy.
„Since the crisis in 2009…
On October 20th, 2010 more than one thousand European milk producers will demonstrate with their tractors in front of the EU parliament. Romuald Schaber, president of the European Milk Board (EMB) says: “On behalf of the citizens and farmers in Europe we call on the parliament to support an intelligent regulation of the dairy…
September 25th, 2010
Only twelve months ago at the height of the milk crisis several thousand furious milk producers spilled 3.5 million litres of milk on a field near Mont St. Michel in Western France. One thousand milk producers from France and 50 of their colleagues from Germany and Belgium met in this very place on…
European Milk Board welcomes the decision of the Swiss National Council to put milk producers in charge to ensure generally binding provisions
Hamm, October 6th, 2010: „The National Council has put on the brakes. A majority its members voted in favour of a motion that will enable milk producers to decide whether and how…
A new agreement on milk prices was signed in France. This agreement includes an increase of the milk price by 10% compared to 2009. This means that producers will obtain a basic price of 32 cents for their milk (3,8% fat and 3,2% protein) Given the increased prices for fodder and the redemption of loans that producers had to…
Rennes/Hamm:
More than 2000 farmers demonstrated during the opening of the agricultural show SPACE. Most of them were members of the member organisations of the European Milk Board (EMB) APLI (Association des producteurs de lait indépendants) and OPL (Organisation des producteurs de lait), but many visitors of the show who…
The gap in the agricultural sector is widening. This has been evident since the milk crisis in 2009. In recent years producers saw a steady decline of their revenues and many of them were forced to give up their farms, while the margins and concentration of industry and retail sector have been increasing. Now the European…
French milk producers obtained, compared to 2009, a milk price increase of 10% for 2010. This increase of the milk price that producers will obtain in the third quarter of 2010 amount to 3,1 cent/litre compared to previous year. This agreement was reached after the major unions in France put pressure on the industry so that the…
Paris / Berlin, 02.09.2010: The European Milk Board (EMB) has presented the Franco-German working group, initiated by the Ministries for Agriculture in Germany and in France, with a list of ten minimum criteria. This list defines the conditions which contracts between milk producers and the dairy industry, have to meet. EMB…
