Agriculture in the national news
News | 23 July, 2009
A DAILY look at how agriculture has caught the headlines across the country (Thursday, July 23).
EU to probe retail milk prices
The European Commission is investigating retail milk prices in the midst of a dairy sector crisis which has triggered a farmers' revolt.
Prices to milk producers have halved since 2007 and are at an all-time low.
But a new Commission report has rejected farmers' demands to impose tougher production quotas.
Press Association
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Report reveals dairy sector chaos across Europe as prices fall
SELDOM in the past 30 years has there been such discontent among Europe's dairy farmers. Demonstrations are being staged almost weekly in Brussels and Strasbourg.
The European Milk Board (EMB), a producer organisation with an EU-wide membership reckons that the cost of production is in the region of 32p per litre, but claims that dairy farmers in most member states are paid little more than 17.6p.
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