Brussels, 03/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 3 June, the EU Management Committee saw the sale of the first volumes of dairy intervention stocks back on to the EU market. Adjudication sales of butter went ahead but not for skimmed milk powder. Intervention stocks were introduced during last year's crisis, in an effort to support market prices.
Adjudication saw 11,551 tonnes of butter sold (from stores in Belgium, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and the UK) at prices varying from 345.0...