The growth in milk production in the EU since January 2017 “is quite simply unsustainable in the current market”, European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan told EU farm ministers, gathered in Brussels on Monday 29 January to discuss, inter alia, the problem of skimmed milk powder stocks.
Production, encouraged by high prices, has risen in countries such as Ireland (9.1% between January and September), Poland (4.7%), the United Kingdom (3.9%) and Italy (3.5%) and, more recently and...