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Tag: Dairy sector

EU advised to table rules for dairy contracts - 16 June 2010 - News

After eight months of brainstorming, an EU expert group has drummed up seven recommendations to stabilise the dairy market and ensure a fair income for producers.

McCartney tips 'Meat-free Monday' to curb warming - 04 December 2009 - News

In a drive to halt climate change and improve public health, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has told Europeans to abstain from eating meat at least once a week.

Angry dairy farmers dump milk at EU headquarters - 22 September 2009 - News

European dairy farmers set hay on fire and spilled milk in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Monday (21 September) and warned their protest over low milk prices would intensify.

EU agrees steps to help dairy prices - 24 July 2009 - News

The European Union agreed steps yesterday (23 July) to help stabilise falling dairy prices, scrapping the minimum price for cheese to qualify for export subsidies and extending purchases of butter and milk powder. 

EU to investigate dairy sector profits - 23 July 2009 - News

The EU has limited scope to help struggling dairy farmers over the next two years, but is investigating whether big supermarkets are using their buying power unfairly against them, a European Commission report on the dairy market situation shows.

EU offers help to dairy sector, refuses quota rises - 26 May 2009 - News

Europe's farm chief yielded some ground on Monday amid demands for aid to help the European Union's dairy sector cope with low prices and poor exports, offering to advance EU subsidy payments to all eligible farmers. But she rejected calls from small farmers to restore milk quotas. 

EU farm chief rejects calls to restore milk quotas - 24 March 2009 - News

Marianne Fischer Boel, the EU's agriculture commissioner, yesterday (23 March) dismissed calls by Germany and four other EU nations to reinstate milk quotas in an effort to support prices, which have plunged dramatically in recent months.

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