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Czech farmers protest low milk prices

2010-02-24T12:37:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Farmers spray milk onto fields across Czech Republic to protest low prices</div><div><p>Farmers sprayed milk onto fields across the Czech Republic on Thursday to protest low prices.</p><p>Agriculture authorities said farmers planned to dump up to 500,000 liters (132,000 gallons) of milk, or 7 percent of their daily production.</...

Milk prices in Pa. get a boost to help farmers

2010-02-24T15:37:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Pa. milk prices get a boost to help hurting farmers; a gallon of milk to rise by a few cents</div><div><p>The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board is temporarily boosting the minimum price of milk across the state by a few cents a gallon to soothe hurting dairy farmers.</p><p>The three-member board vo...

EU announces new aid for crisis-hit dairy farmers

2010-02-24T17:11:53Z

<div><p>The European Union on Monday announced a major aid package to crisis-hit dairy farmers, as hundreds of milk producers hit the streets in Luxembourg to press home their call for help.</p><p>EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said she would...

EU should drop milk deregulation: France

2010-02-24T17:23:29Z

<div><p>Europe should abandon liberalisation of the milk sector, French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire said Monday ahead of an EU meeting due to announce nearly 300 million euros of aid to struggling farmers.</p><p>"I would like to see ... a strong political signal that Euro...

Belgian farmers protest

2009-09-24T12:00:54Z

Milk is flowing on the ground part of the milk strike of dairy farmers against low milk prices who started all over Europe, Saturday 12 September 2009, in a place called ''La motte dans les champs de Hautgne-Dolembreux'' in Sprimont, Belgium. Around 150.000 liters of this morning fresh milk, coming from forty milk producers of the region, were thrown awy....

Producers poor a milk in front of EU headquater

2009-09-22T21:05:51Z

Erwin Schopges of the Belgian Milk Producer Lobby (MIG) during The Farmers and milk producers pooring the milk, in fornt of the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 2009-09-21 Farmers consider that the Commission does nothing to improve their situat...

French milk producers distribute free milk in Paris

2009-09-22T10:21:51Z

People are given free milk by dairy farmers in Paris, France, 22 September 2009, as part of an European-wide protests against low milk prices that the farmers say poses a bankruptcy threat to tens of thousands of milk producers in Europe. The protest, led by the dumping of a symbolic ''milk lake'' by the entrance to the European...

BELGIUM-EU-DAIRY-STRIKE

2009-09-21T04:05:58Z

Belgian farmers dump milk in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on September 21, 2009 in Brussels to protest against plummeting milk prices. Belgian farmers have dumped milk on highways and given out free milk in some cities in response to a call to action from the European Milk Board (EMB). In November 2008, EU agricu...

Vietnam Infant Formula

2009-09-20T14:16:57Z

In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, a milk company's advertisements are seen on the wall of nursery school in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

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APTOPIX FRANCE EU MILK PROTEST

2009-09-20T10:16:15Z

French farmers spray milk onto a field in Ardevon near Le Mont Saint-Michel, western France, to protest falling milk prices, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Farmers around Europe are dumping milk in protests to call attention to falling milk prices and a plan to phase out milk quotas. The EU F...

FRANCE EU MILK PROTEST

2009-09-20T10:02:35Z

French farmers spray milk onto a field in Ardevon near Le Mont Saint-Michel, seen behind, western France, to protest falling milk prices, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Farmers around Europe are dumping milk in protests to call attention to falling milk prices and a plan to phase out milk quotas. The France, 18 September 2009, to protest falling milk prices. Dairy farmers across the 27-nation EU have protested falling milk prices and a European Commission plan to end production qu...

French milk producers pour litres of milk on a field near Le Mont Saint Michel

2009-09-18T10:11:53Z

French milk producers pour litres of milk on a field near Le Mont Saint Michel, western France, September 18, 2009 in protest over a growing industrial dispute over low prices. The banner reads "milk producers on strike". REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE CONFLICT AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)...

BELGIUM-EU-FARM-PRICE-STRIKE

2009-09-16T08:26:24Z

Belgian farmers dump on September 16, 2009 some three million liters of milk in a field in Ciney, southern Belgium, to protest against plummeting milk prices. Dairy prices have collapsed due to low demand caused by the economic crisis, dropping to half their price since 2007 in some countries. In November, EU agriculture ministers agreed to lift milk production quotas by one percent per year...

FRANCE-EU-FARM-MILK-PRICE-STRIKE

2009-09-14T05:41:51Z

French milk producers distribute milk for free at a market on September 14, 2009 in La Mure, French Alps, during an action to protest against plummeting milk prices. Dairy prices have collapsed due to low demand caused by the economic crisis, dropping to half their price since 2007 in some European countries. In November, EU agriculture ministers agreed to lift milk production quotas...

BELGIUM-DAIRY-STRIKE

2009-09-12T07:27:07Z

Belgian dairy farmers empty milk containers in a field near Sprimont on September 12, 2009 to protest falling milk prices. Belgian dairy farmers were responding to a call by French farmers on September 10 to halt milk deliveries due to plummeting milk prices. Dairy prices have collapsed due to low demand caused by the economic crisis, dropping to half their price since 2007 in some countries. In November 2008, EU agriculture ministers a...

PARIS: French dairy farmers protest

2009-09-10T10:46:04Z

French dairy farmers and supporters gather on September 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against milk prices. Dairy prices have collapsed due to low demand caused by the financial and economic crisis, since 2007, milk prices having in some countries halved. Paris, FRANCE - 10/09/2009/0909101413 Photo via Newscom...

A sculpture of a dairy cow painted in the colours of the French flag is displayed during a demonstration by European milk producers against low milk prices in P

2009-09-10T06:23:02Z

A sculpture of a dairy cow painted in the colours of the French flag is displayed during a demonstration by European milk producers against low milk prices in Paris September 10, 2009. The words on the sculpture read: "The fair milk". REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CONFLICT)...

European milk producers hold a banner during a demonstration against low milk prices in Paris

2009-09-10T05:45:46Z

European milk producers hold a banner, which reads: "National APLI and EMB. No organization without milk. We have the milk", during a demonstration against low milk prices in Paris September 10, 2009. APLI stands for National Association of Independent Milk Producers and EMB stands for

European milk producer holds a sculpture of a dairy cow painted in the colours of the German flag during a demonstration against low milk prices in Paris

2009-09-10T05:45:47Z

European milk producer holds a sculpture of a dairy cow painted in the colours of the German flag during a demonstration against low milk prices in Paris September 10, 2009. The words on the sculpture read: "The fair milk". REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE AGRICULTURE CONFLICT BUSINESS)...