European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan said at a press conference in Brussels on Monday 23 January that milk prices in the EU had increased by 25% since last August but he acknowledged that the recovery was fragile.
Against a backdrop of demonstrating producers who dumped a tonne of powdered milk outside the Council buildings in Brussels, Hogan gave assurances that the Commission was being careful in the return of skimmed milk powder (SMP) to the market. In three tenders for the sale...