Dairy
Dairy farmers protest in Brussels demanding a permanent crisis instrument that prevents surpluses of milk powder on the dairy market.
The Commission is looking at how it could incentivise Article 222 in the next EU dairy package, the Commissioner for Agriculture has said.
The UFU has said that while a European dairy package could offer short-term support, it will not improve the critical situation facing local farmers.
Belgian farmers sprayed some 40,000L of milk over the building beside where today's Council of Agriculture Ministers convened today in Luxembourg.
Quotas were bad for the Irish agri-food sector and farmers, the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed has said
The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, is dealing with the ongoing dairy crisis on an ad hoc basis, MEP Matt Carthy says.
Six regional farming ministers of the German green party have urged Chancellor Merkel to improve the lot of dairy farmers.
Opinion
The dairy aid package, announced yesterday by the European Commission, should be welcomed by the industry and dairy farmers.
The EU dairy crisis support package announced yesterday has been labelled insufficient by farming organisations in Ireland.
Farming organisations are seeking to have the full details of the EU Dairy Aid package paid out to farmers as quickly as possible.
The first elements of the special aid package for EU farmers worth 500 million EURO, announced by the European Commission in early September, have now been adopted by the European Commission.
There is no immediate end in sight to the dairy crisis and it is a real and deep financial crisis for all dairy farmers, President of the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) Ian Marshall has said.
Low prices are not the norm for dairy markets and we're going to have a six to eight month problem, according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney.
It is impossible to identify a single causative factor for the fall in world dairy prices, but the collapse has occurred as a result of multiple factors.
