15.07.2010
The great "Wellie toss" by dairy producers
The protest highlighted: the proposals of the EU HLG are threatening our livelihoods - Alternatives are required.
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12.07.2010
Switzerland: demonstration in Bern
Over one hundred milk producers gathered on July 12, to demonstrate against the inaction of the branch organisation milk (BO Milk) regarding the dairy market situation.
In order to point out their discontent, producers filled up a swimming pool with milk and they put figurines of representatives of the branch organisation to…
12.07.2010
Press release: Over one thousand European milk producers protest today during the session of the European Council of Agriculture Ministers
The report of the High Level Group on Milk (HLGM) that will be discussed today by the European Council of Agriculture Ministers cannot solve the milk crisis. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and European Milk Board (EMB) make one thing clear at their demonstration: fair prices for producers and supply management are…
08.07.2010
Press release: A step into the right direction: a change in European competition law – milk producers and dairies on an equal footing
EMB presents cabinet of Dacian Ciolos, European Commissioner for Agriculture, with a groundbreaking draft regulation
07.07.2010
Fourth of July Take Back Your Independence Day Dump
Around 150 New York dairy famers as well as hundreds of others around the country, held a „Dump the Milk“ protest on July 4, 2010 to highlight the problem of low milk prices. West Winfield farmers Dave and Robin Fitch helped to organise „the Fourth of July Take Back Your Independence Day Dump“ where dairy famers nationwide were…
07.07.2010
Appeal to all European producers: to demonstrate on July 12th for a real reform of the existing milk policy!
by European Coordination Via Campesina and European Milk Board
07.07.2010
Press invitation: Great rally „For the Freedom of Farmers“
Milk producers from many European countries demonstrating outside the Council of the European Union building in Brussels on 12 July.
22.06.2010
16.06.2010
Press release: High Level Group of Experts on Milk fails to deliver
EU High Level Group of Experts on Milk’s final report does nothing to help solve the catastrophic situation in the milk market - Milk producers condemn the proposals in the strongest terms
01.06.2010
The French Senate voted compulsory contractualisation
On May 26th. the French Senate voted complusory contractualisation for the Law of agricultural Modernisation.
This implies that the Senate reinforces the French interprofession, that si to say the major producers union in France (FNSEA) and reinforces also the relationship between this union and milk industries and milk…
