24.08.2009
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24.08.2009
Demands on politics
System change -
for the lasting stability of sustainable milk production and the dairy industry throughout Europe
Preamble
A surfeit of supply: surpluses are preventing cost-covering prices paid to milk producers and destroying farms and regional structures
Since autumn 2008 the European milk market has been under…
20.08.2009
Germany: Hessian minister of Agriculture demands volume reduction (in german)
<link fileadmin dokumente deutschland download file>The hessian minister of agriculture, Silke Lautenschläger, contacts Mariann Fischer Boel and Ilse Aigner and demands a reduction of milk volume...
20.08.2009
Germany: German dairy farmers take volume reduction in their own hands (in french)
<link fileadmin dokumente deutschland fvme_de.pdf download file>German dairy farmers decide to start a voluntary time limited reduction of milk volume
19.08.2009
France: The profession of dairy farmers (in french)
<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich courrier_des_lecteurs.jpg download file>The profession of dairy farmers
19.08.2009
France: Segré, Nord-Anjou (in french)
<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich download file>Milk: Independant producers at "Expo-Parc" in Segré, Nord-Anjou, France
07.08.2009
Eight EU-members are against the increase of the quota
The German agricultural minister Ilse Aigner continues to prevent an increase of the quota. She has sent a letter with seven colleguages to the EU-commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel geschrieben. The other countries are: Austria, France, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Slowakia, Slovenia.
<link fileadmin dokumente press_release deutschland august_-_dezember download file> letter to the commission in German
06.08.2009
Germany: BDM - dairy farmers will help themselves
(Freising) The situation on the milk market and the slow reaction of politicians has been the reason the BDM has developed a draft to decrease the pressure on the market. This draft adresses producers, dairy and politics to the same degree. It is a voluntarily obligating reduction of volume with financial compensation (FMS). In…
