The account is not the prices are too low

Thus, farmers are ready to begin a "milk strike" refusing delivery to dairies. Of course, the situation is untenable and the agreement of June on the price is a demi-défaite. The account is not, the prices are too low. But a strike of milk

A strike will step back prices and suggest that a reduction of quotas is possible is a hoax. On this subject, the game is played. A large majority of States members remain favourable to the increase in or the abolition of quotas, decided less than a year ago, and, despite the current crisis, many States remain on this position either by doctrinal choice, either because they have untapped potential, or because they pay penalties for exceeding. Even the most reserved States on the increase in quotas have taken their party. Indeed, productions adjust themselves to the decrease in demand and the reduction of quotas would not change anything.

Then a strike for nothing Unfortunately not. The strike of the milk can have devastating effects.

The school is to succeed the project of contractualization of relations between producers and manufacturers, price undertaking and supply management. But the report is today against farmers, poorly organized with a handful of industrial weighing on the world market. What will a strike change this situation The world of livestock is very various and, above all, less solidarity that might be expected: there is plain farmers and those mountain farmers who sell milk fairly expensive for cheese with high added value and those that produce milk UHT, large potential producers and others which can harm their dairy of proximity without risking disappear with it. The first risk is that the strike shows to light the main weakness of the agricultural world: its division.

In the arms of iron between farmers and manufacturers of dairy products, the second risk is to the game of the latter. Because if producers have little choice of delivery, manufacturers can still go to provide, there or the price of milk is still cheaper. Attention to the new currents of import must be consistent with the logic of the single market, but to which the producers are hardly used. In value, in two years, imports of milk and Germany the Netherlands increased by 50 and 100. The France is even a little milk Poland and the Czech Republic. And if manufacturers, because local milk, anticipated that an opportunity to provide elsewhere "Strikers" farmers the offer on a plateau. The milk strike aims to raise awareness. But even this target will be missed. When milk is drawn must be selling it. Because what do non-milk delivered to dairies The store, in refrigerated tanks loaned by dairies The elimination, in discharging it into the streets Farmers should be aware that, even if there is a Fund of sympathy for the peasant world, opinion on agricultural reports reactions are generally negative.

Two-thirds of the thousand of SMS to the "C in the air" program devoted to fruits and vegetables or three quarters of the letters following the written press articles showed irritation, hostility, against farmers "subsidized and polluting"....

The peasant world is the large back hoping that it passes and, issue after issue, rate their appointments with the view. This does not work into the gutters of milk! Even the battle on the price of milk, yet legitimate, will be lost if it is presented only in financial terms. It would be better to debate the political angle. Breeders can assert a vision of society where, in France, 60 of dairy cows are still in the fields, not battery-ground as encourages it the productivist model. On this battle, they can be followed. Otherwise... Breeders should renounce the strike. Or then not in this form. Why not a strike at the Japanese for example, with brassard I.e., in this case, with a wide "strike Ribbon", attached between chest and tail, on the model of agricultural general competition winners trophies. There is in any case less collateral damage. It is not the first time that cows would serve as support for advertising but never yet they have complained. This is the time.