In France, everything is on the rise except the price of milk

Published 2022년 7월 20일

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French milk producers are protesting outside dairy companies Sodiaal's factories, asserting that these companies are disregarding the Égalim 2 law which mandates including a production cost indicator in milk price formulas. The producers highlight that while costs have risen, milk prices have not, largely due to double-digit inflation in farm costs. They are calling for immediate increases of €50 and a minimum milk price of €450 in the third quarter. If their demands are not met, they threaten more trade union action.

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Nobody is supposed to ignore the law. Not even dairy companies, even cooperative ones. Tuesday July 12, it is the message that the milk producers went to deliver in front of the LFO factories (Fromageries occitanes) sanfloraine and saint-mamétoise of Sodiaal at the call of the FDSEA and the Young farmers. Almost ten months after the promulgation of the Égalim 2 law, the situation is bitter among producers: dairies have an unfortunate tendency to sit on the text. This law provides that milk price formulas include a production cost indicator, which has soared for six months without the curve of the price paid to producers following the movement.Never have the markets been so buoyant“We are in an unprecedented situation, reminded Saint-Mamet Jean-Paul Peyral, president of the dairy section of the FDSEA, in front of the hundred (1) producers gathered at the entrance to the cheese site. Milk production is down everywhere in France as well as at European and global level; at the same ...

Source: Pleinchamp