The surplus of cheap milk in the EU puts Spanish cattle farmers in jeopardy.

Spanish dairy farmers have a problem, and that is that the main producers of the European Union - Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Ireland - have started the year with excess 'stock' and milk prices at origin (which In the absence of the release of March data, which will be key because most contracts in the sector are renewed every three months and coincide with the natural quarter, the main agricultural organizations in our country - Asaja, Coag, UPA, and Unión de Uniones - agree on placing the reduction between seven and nine cents per liter in most cases. If the most conservative figure is taken, this means that the price of milk at origin would go from that it had in February (the last month with official data from Eurostat) to 0.45, a reduction that would accommodate the quotation in Spain to the community average. However, the problem for the farmers in our country is that these figures are below their profitability threshold, so much so that - according ...