Friday, August 26, 2016

Milk prices: farmers gathered outside Lactalis in Corcieux to pressure – Vosges Morning


                 26.08.2016 at 5:04, updated at 00:25

                 
             

CORCIEUX

“No one is serene. It should continue to denounce these injustices. The dairy situation is at its lowest for several months. The pricing policy conducted by the Lactalis group, 0.24 euro per liter, world leader in dairy products, only aggravates the situation. “Months passed but the speech farmers remains relentlessly the same. While an umpteenth meeting on the subject was held yesterday morning in Paris between the dairy giant and the government, trade union representatives of the Greater East, like their Great West counterparts outside the headquarters in Laval, intend to continue the fight . For this, forty, many others being held for the plowing match Villers this weekend, made the trip to Corcieux for a rally outside the premises of the processing plant.



“the price of milk is an insult to our profession”

no blocking or slurry poured in the vicinity of the company this time, so as not to penalize a little more producers working for the site, but all showed a real desire to maintain pressure. “It is no coincidence that all this happens. Because we let the power companies. Today we expect the establishment of a legal framework so that we also take our production cost. To do well, we should be able to sell our milk to 0, 34 euros. If we sell at a loss. There is no wage share. Buy our milk at 24 cents a liter, it’s an insult to our profession. We need a sound basis for negotiations, “said Philippe Clement, president of the FDSEA des Vosges.

Which? “Law Sapin 2 fits into this. But still it must be passed as presented today. We arrived after a system. The profitability of a farm must exist even if we invest to sustain our structures. “

Being arrived at the end of a system, that’s what seems to live every day this farmer fifty years of Charmes, a milk producer Lactalis for which we silent the name because he fears reprisals. Owner of a dairy farm of 50, an output of 500 000 liters per year, he found helpless to the fact that his pay half decline in two years. “Lactalis allowed us to produce more and we bought milk at very low prices. We can not get out. We are caught in the throat … “So much he still hesitates to install a young ready to take his place. “It would be suicidal today,” he says, desperate by this “unbearable” situation.

                        Séb.C.
                     

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