SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

Study confirms gap between costs of milk production and prices paid to producers

Brussels, 10/10/2018 (Agence Europe)

The results of the study on calculating the costs of dairy production in six European countries have shown that there is a widening gap between production costs and prices paid to producers, the EMB (European Milk Board) announced in a press release published on Wednesday 10 October.

According to a study by the BAL (Büro für Agrarsoziologie und Landwirtschaft), the average cost of dairy production over five years in six member states of the EU (France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg...