French dairy farmers have obtained a 10 percent increase in wholesale prices for the third quarter over prices for the same period in 2009, staving off farmers' threats of a nationwide boycott.
Thousands of Spanish farmers marched through central Madrid to the Agriculture Ministry on Saturday to demand government action on the falling prices and rising costs that are threatening to ruin their livelihoods.
Europeans could be breakfasting on dry cornflakes unless the EU seizes the initiahtive in resolving the milk crisis.
A collapse in dairy prices has prompted farmers to boycott deliveries in recent weeks. How to get out of this milk crisis?
The European Union's agriculture commissioner has warned that pictures of price protests in which farmers could be seen dumping huge amounts of milk into fields have had a hugely damaging effect on the EU's reputation in the developing world.
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